Mistake Not My Current State of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans of Wrath.

• Iain M. Banks, "The Hydrogen Sonata"

If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.

• Malcolm X (attributed)

Independent software developer with a certificate from the School of Computer and Information Systems at Athabasca University (Canada), 2017. I have an earlier BA in English and Humanities from Simon Fraser University, 1998. I started programming in BASIC on a VIC-20 when I was 11, later progressed to perl and C, currently work mostly in C++, Kotlin, and python with a bit of js thrown in. I've been an avid GNU/Linux user since 1999.