User:Omz13.com

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David Somers

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Designer of Things. Creator of Stuff. Wrangler of Words.

https://omz13.com

Chat Nickname: omz13

Elsewhere: GitHub Mastodon

I have been online from about 1985, when accessing Prestel over a 1200/75 baud modem was a thing, kermit was a protocol, and X.400 and X.500 were going to be "it".

I established the domain omz13.com to use as my online identity in 2003, which in internet years means it is really old.

Itches

in alphabetical order:

  • avoiding link rot because things on the net have a tendency to disappear (especially when in a silo) so some kind of archiving
  • avoiding the micro and looking more towards the macro (because apparently I did learn something from that Systems Thinking module I read when I was an undergraduate)
  • plurality because diversity and interoperability are good (and that Standards are not necessarily a good indicator)
  • privacy

Working On

A personal and sovereign platform (because I am gen x and Go is my language du jour).

Why build it yourself? Because: kicks and giggles, and why be a sheep and integrate in 10 minutes with some service that is just another single point of failure (because single point of aaron) when you can spend a year or two building it yourself.

FAQ

Windows or Apple?

Apple because macOS is Unix and their hardware is unbelievably good.

Tabs or Spaces

Tabs

How do you feel about systemd?

It works, so why all the hate about it?