About me: I enjoy computers, programming and reading. When I get sick of electronics, I enjoy astronomy, photography, trekking and beer. And traveling and meeting people.
Sites I frequent are Slashdot, Ars Technica, XKCD and NASA picture of the day.
I enjoy physics and science in general. When I get bored or find the time, I crank out some code, most likely in Perl. Lately I've found an interest in the Rust language, which has potential to be compact but strongly typed (and fast).
Professionally I usually go where I'm most needed, whether programming or more "architect" work, including advice, sound technological choice, etc. Today's wide selection of tools and platforms are challenging and navigating them is difficult for everyone including clients. I therefore spend some time both learning, helping and guiding where possible.
Complexity is something I find to be troublesome and growing on cloud platforms. There's a lot of stuff to manage there that people are not used to (that used to be managed by an IT department). Work within IT has shifted a lot onto personnel not experienced with the type of questions and problems posing them.
Modern challenges are "agile", planning, estimation and how to do things well. Not obvious things, I think. How to do team work efficiently is something that interest me.
I have the luxury of being able to learn new things on the job. For that I am forever grateful.
Updated in October 2024