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Contact

Email: {first name} at jnewport dot dev

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Blog

Projects and Fun Stuff

• 3l-symbols: a symbols layer for QWERTY
• My dotfiles
• This website
• Advent of Code: My advent of code solutions. Golang.
• Music Tools: a set of tools related to ripping CDs on Linux.


• What I do when I'm not programming:
  • Read, mostly sci fi/fantasy/history. The best books I've read lately are N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, William Gibson's cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
  • Write and edit prose fiction.
  • Play racquetball (poorly) or ride my bike.
  • Listen to music, mostly metal and industrial. My favorite album you've probably never heard of is Concentration by the band Machines of Loving Grace. My favorite bands include Tool, Ministry, Rammstein, W.A.S.P., and Judas Priest. My Discogs profile.
  • Play modern board games, mostly Euros. I've been on a big Concordia kick lately, and I also play a lot of Terraforming Mars.
  • Play video games, mostly strategy. My top 3 series/engines are Crusader Kings, Total War, and the Infinity Engine (Baldur's Gate). I also seem to play a lot of Wesnoth.
  I'm always looking for new suggestions for any of the above!

Talks

• ZSH: a talk about why zsh is a better shell than whatever you're using right now, and how to make it even better
• CentOS: a brief talk about the Linux distro CentOS, and why some people use it
• Vim: a talk about my favorite text editor, how to use it, and why you should
• Tmux: a talk about tmux, a terminal multiplexer. Run multiple terminal windows, or detach and retach sessions!
• DBus: a talk about DBus, the Linux/free desktop message/IPC bus, including a demo of desktop notifications.
• ZFS: a talk about ZFS and some cool features it has that make it worth checking out for your Linux or BSD server

Hardware

named after characters from the excellent Night Lords series by Aaron Dembski-Bowden.

• Talos, a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop--my daily driver (running Arch Linux).
• Xarl, a custom-built desktop. Ryzen R5 3600/RX5700XT (running Arch Linux).
• Cyrion, a Toshiba Satellite laptop--technically a server (running OpenBSD).
• Malcharion, the DigitalOcean VPS that serves this website (running FreeBSD).
• Variel, the Hetzner VPS that hosts my Gonic server (running Debian).
• So, so many work machines ;)