Check out my site https://jodoin.io , just me tinkering with SvelteKit. Source here, but it's a slapdash project and not really worth looking at. You can contact me via this mailto link.

Navy Comms Vet turned computer scientist and occasional software engineer.

Advocate for freedom of information, education and ethical use of technology.

Currently learning Japanese,
working through my reading backlog,
struggling with imposter syndrome,
and trying to find motivation to start my next unfinished project.

• (forked) polybar-spotify-module. includes some fixes for issues based by polybar updates. I don't have time to keep up with this anymore. I was the only one using it, to my knowledge, and I don't use polybar much since switching to Wayland. if someone does want me to come back to it, let me know and I'll try to make time.

• pngwin (shelved, born from a uni project) I might come back to this if I have time now that I have more experience building APIs)

My relevant professional experience can be found on my LinkedIn

Interested in working on projects developing Linux Application / OS software, including CLI tools. If you would like me to contribute to your project, please forward inquiries to my listed email with details. Thanks!

My Mom and Dad dropped out of college when I was born. They worked for a while to pay the bils until they started a software company, employing and enabling many of their friends. They sold it just before the dotcom burst. Like many, we lost almost everything. We survived on my parents' hard work, but it was never the same afteward. The very same industry they had worked so hard to contribute to now looked down on them, despite their experience and skill.

Why? They didn't have a degree; a simple piece of paper.

Some of the most insightful, grounded, and intellectually gifted people I know have no degree or means by which to get one. On the flip side, some of the most incapable, entitled, and outright evil peple I've met have formal educations.

Reconsider education as your bar for hiring. The current educational system generally benefits the wealthy over creativity, skill and character. Higher education should be free for everyone who wants it, and until it is, hiring based on education enables that system.

Mom and Dad, thank you for struggling to give us chance. Without your support, I never would have pushed so hard to succeed.