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Current location

Zwolle, the Netherlands, Earth, orbiting somewhere around Solar

Enthousiastic about

Open Source software that respects its users, privacy, the environment and the universe.

Current tech interests

Simplicity in software, low demands, low impact, soldering and Breaking free from dependence on Big Tech^tm

Hobbies

Writing fiction, photography, reading, web programming

Music

Yes please! RadioHead, Elbow, Spinvis, Nick Cave, Arctic Monkeys, Villagers, ...

Oh, a quick intermezzo regarding those photos...

Here are a few links to photo series to get a sense of what kind of photography I'm interested in:

Software

OS

Debian, OpenBSD

I'm curious about Plan 9

Also, I try to contribute bits and pieces to Debian.

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Programming Languages

Go (fav)
PHP (does the job)
Python (fav before Go)
TypeScript

I also like shell scripting (Bourne).

Text editor

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> Vi! Emacs! Ed! Vim! Zed! What?
> :wq
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For real, Emacs and Vim. Somehow able to use both.

Currently leaning towards Vim because of lower load (both cognitive and system).

I sometimes like to use Ed as well. Crazy right?

Employment

Since 02017 I work as a teacher in Software Development (Vocational Education / MBO) to awesome students <3 ;-)

Before that I mostly worked as a Linux / Unix consultant, DevOps and web programmer.

See also: my resume

Some other intel, for free

Linux since 01997

Sweet memories of downloading Slackware on floppies over 64kbps ISDN ...

and re-downloading because some of them broke

and again

and again ...

Age: older than the sun, the stars, and the moon

Contact

Feel free to approach me at Mastodon

Regards, Jochem

-- 
'You are good enough.
Actually, you're probably overqualified, but let's stay humble here.'
	- Inspirational Skeletor