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Experience (two decades of years) with TCP/IP networks and routing, debugging of software, runtime and build optimization of software. I am familiar with remote work, and ticket systems, active monitoring. Linux system maintenance, upgrades.

Familiar with HTCondor, Slurm, GNU parallel, C, shell scripting (bash/sed/awk), ansible, software packaging for Debian/Ubuntu, and macOS (with brew), and FreeBSD ports.

User of macOS, Debian GNU/Linux + kFreeBSD. Also played with GNU/Hurd, Haiku OS, FreeDOS, Minix, ReactOS, sel4, Plan9, and NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP.

Do NOT contact me if you have very interesting opportunities about PHP, Adobe Flash, LDAP.

Achievements

• built nethack and ascended nethack 3 times
• used ./configure; make; make install, cmake, scons, meson, maven, go build, ruby, lua, rust, and many other build systems successfully
• created my own Linux distribution, GNUSTEP (used to be https://livecd.gnustep.org)
• created web application with framework7
• file(1) magic(5) contributor
• became Debian Developer
• own macbrew taps
• built gcc 2.x and gcc 5.x with later versions of gcc (for reasons)
• optimized code/systems to have shorter runtime, shorter build time, be smaller in size.
• debugging with tcpdump (or ngrep)
• gpg user since 2001
• wrote uberkey a keylogger for x86
• wrote fnt font manager for Linux or macOS
• wrote modern implementation of ruptime
• switched from Keychron K8 Pro TKL to 60% M0110
• GitRoll
• Shiptalkers

Philosophy

• You break it, you fix it
• Do not overthink/overengineer
• Observe, Think, Act (brain is not like soap, does not get less when used)
• Consistency
• Simple systems have less downtime
• Mise en place also works for me

Goals

• Visit MiniDebConf Berlin 2024 and give talks, Apple on Bananas, ruptime
• Package all ITPs and maybe some RFPs, see my QA page
• coot, root-framework, geant4, relion
• deb2brew (automatic macOS homebrew generation)
• abp (automatic backports from sid, simple sid backports)
• deb2freebsd (automatic FreeBSD port generation)
• Network Discovery/Mapping ingegrated into ruptime
• allow all vector mono fonts to be made available for setfont (see otf2bdf and bdf2psf)
• start fixing debsecan --format detail
• Having fun with

Documents

• Debian Packaging TL;DR
• Vortex M0110 Fn Shortcuts
• Shotcut Shortcuts
• Got root?
• Testing Hardware
• State of Linux on recent Apple Hardware
• ruptime
• AI - blessing or curse

Wishlist (sorted by importance)

• Bones for our great dane.
• Flowers for my wife, hint, she likes goździki.
• Yes
• Pen
• Vortex M0110
• RM800XL
• Amiga Clock
• Apple M1 or M2 to run Debian non-dsa porterbox > https://bananas.debian.net
• Amiga 500 Mini (because Amiga mouse is best)
• SPARCstation to run OPENSTEP
• Amiga Tank Mouse
• Keychron K8 Pro