I am a Gen X dude (he/him) who has been online since the days of 300 baud acoustic couplers; I cut my teeth, like everybody else in the early 1980s, programming BASIC and 6502 assembler while listening to the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show; these days I'm into Go and SwiftUI and my tcp packets arrive via an optical-fiber cable (FTTH FTW).
I'm married with children. La famille avant tout.
If you haven't already done so, I highly recommend that you read Albert-László Barabási's Linked, Douglas Coupland's Microserfs, William Gibson's Neuromancer, Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, and Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motocycle Maintenance.
I make things1 for the #SmallWeb or #PersonalWeb or whatever its called these days; I'm taking a hiatus2 from being directly involved with the IndieWebCamp community because reasons34.
Footnotes
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a multi-tenant CMS with microformats as its native format; an IdP/AS supporting IndieAuth and more; federation via ActivityPub (because that is where the action is). ↩
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a very extended hiatus. ↩
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dogma, groupthink, confirmation bias, hypocrisy, lack of resilience, diminishing relevance, and most especially the pushback in #indieweb-dev. ↩
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in discussions with people, it is clear that I am not the only person who has had these issues; I will also not be the last, because the community, or more specifically the core leaders, seem to be tone-deaf about hearing anything negative, let alone, thinking about or even doing anything to change their position(s); I'm not drinking their Kool-Aid. ↩