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Hi, my name is Ian. I have been interested in computers since an Apple ][e was brought home to us in 1984. I’ve always enjoyed making and discovery to which computers are nearly an endless playground.

I’ve made a career of being a software developer, although for better and for worse, it’s no longer my primary responsibility. I would have called myself a fullstack developer, architect, and part-time system administrator. Mostly Windows at work and linux at home.

Vi(m) is the one true text editor.

I’m currently running a Univeral Blue Fedora custom image with Labwc which makes me a Modern day gray beard hipster longing for the old days.

I’ve always make notes and logs. To be less be less of a Dark Matter Developer, this site is an effort to share for anyone who’s interested. Docs should cover knowledge, often the result of discovery covered in a blog post.

Following: Bookmarks of blogs pods and more

Experienced Technology

A non exhaustive list of technologies I’ve done work with in chronological order grouped in traunches somewhat related to job or project changes:

  • University and Pre-University

    • Windows 85 & 2000
    • Mandriva Linux
    • Solaris
    • C, Java, Perl, HTML, CSS, Javascript

  • Traunch 1

    • Perl: using a web application framework written for cgi.
    • Apache mod_perl
    • Postgres
    • FreeBSD
    • Redhat: Gnome or Afterstep environment
    • CVS

  • Traunch 2

    • NCR 3430 Mainframe
    • COBOL
    • Windows
    • MS Access
    • ASP.NET Web Forms 2.0
    • SQL Server 2005
    • Subversion
    • Ubuntu (unity7 environment)
    • Azure

  • Traunch 3

    • Windows and Windows Server: Hyper-V
    • Debian
    • SQL Server
    • Visual Studio
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Node
    • Vue 2
    • ASP.NET MVC
    • .Net Core
    • Git
    • Xubuntu Xfce
    • Flatcar Container Linux

  • Traunch 4

    • Windows and Windows Server: Hyper-V
    • Azure
    • FreeBSD 14: Bhyve
    • Flatcar Container Linux
    • docker, containers, compose
    • Universal Blue
    • Labwc
    • VSCode
    • Development Containers
    • .Net Core
    • Vue
    • Golang
    • Rust (for play only so far)
    • Svelte (for play only so far)