you've found stormrider's personal site. enjoy.
about me
i first used 'nix over 50 years ago, and it's been my passion and my go-to since. i've tried lots of other tools, but they leave me feeling flat and immobile and wanting to get back to the command line. eventually, i just gave in.
i use a loaded hp elitebook running debian 13, no graphical interface. if i have to use javascript on a site, i just use my phone. otherwise, i generally use emacs.
things i do
i retired in late 2025. since then, i sew (it's a hobby), write books (you can find them on amazon.com), and do a few other odd things to make up the shortfall in my social security. will work for money.
i'm also a sort of informal historian of systems from the 1980s era. i keep a dictionary of chatronyms (chat abbreviations, mostly from irc, but many have lived on into the world of texting). i also have an ever-shrinking list of phone numbers that will get you interesting recordings, many of them telephone company intercepts that have survived. you'll also find my complete geek code.
i also have lots of photos, which i'm slowly but surely posting to this website, although most of them aren't that interesting to people who aren't family.
lastly, i have some small tutorials (on subjects like maas at the cli and networking that i had previously posted on the web, for general use. there's also a collection of essays with no particular cohesive theme (the toolmaker's creed, the art of attention, ninety percent).
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