SF Bay Area. Techie stuff, mainly innovation and R&D. Empathy is the highest personal value. Fan of lost political causes.

Day job is bootstrapping a social gaming startup hidden inside a Public Benefit Corp. Motto: Turning Sinners into Saints.

Ex-Panasonic. Ex-AWS, ex-Lab126, ex-Taligent, with spates at Apple, IBM, and NASA. Side-gig/retirement goal: writing novels. He/him.

Motivated by weird problems & sleek solutions
Working on, learning with and bootstrapping https://coders.fail #BuildInPublic

Still retired, oldmeanroy on twit, my best friend is my dog, bigtime car guy.

Programmed my first computer in 1964, a CDC160A, in binary. Using the switches on the front panel.
Took one byte off the paper tape bootstrap routine.

My Channel
https://youtube.com/@oldmeanroy

Hello tooters! I'm an #embedded #SoftwareEngineer using #c #cplusplus #sh #GNUMake #Perl #Buildroot #Buildbot #Javascript #Thrift #Bootstrap #Eclipse CDT #KDE #Debian #Linux to make #microwave #radio network devices.

Also I build and #ride #bicycles outside in #Devon and inside on #Zwift, enjoy #cooking, #beer, red #wine and #coffee 😋

In a different life I might have been in #infosec #particlephysics #astrophysics #chemistry or #robotics !

Background picture of my #Assos Goomah by my son