Hello! I'm a free and open source software enthusiast, general computer nerd, and music lover. I believe in the privacy and control of data that comes from community supported services, self-hosting, and a less corporate internet. Lately I'm also getting more interested in the world of text and PUBNIX / tilde systems, as a relaxing antidote to the complexity and corporate pizazz of the modern internet.
This gemini site is self-hosted on a Raspberry Pi4 system in my house. I choose to self-host my gemini & web sites, as well as other webby app things, but also frequent community public access UNIX systems. You can find me as:
@dctrud@mastodon.social on Mastodon
dctrud at SDF (web / IRC / com)
dctrud at tilde.club (web / IRC)
Most likely you'd bump into me hanging around on SDF COMmode chat, or SDF/tilde IRC, during various excellent aNONradio and tilderadio streaming shows. Quite a little community exists around these, and it's well worth checking out if you like the idea of listening to a range of music while hanging out with some excellent, friendly people.
If you ever want to drop me an email, you can reach me at:
This is my personal site, and I'll keep more general information about how things are hosted here will at the top-level domain:
I'll be switching from an http blog, which I used to write in org-mode, to a gemlog. I've converted my old articles from org -> md -> gmi using pandoc, and md2gemini and have posted them as-is. I'll try to come back around and tidy them up later, so they look a bit nicer with the gemini linking etc.
I'm intending to use spacewalk, a modified spacewalk, or write something myself to keep track of updates in place I like to read.
I'm originally from a small village in Cornwall, UK, but moved to the USA about 10 years ago now. I live in a fairly boring, but pleasant, suburb of the North Texas metroplex.
My computing life start with an Atari STFM, playing games and programming in ST Basic and GFA Basic, and I was lucky enough to turn a childhood interest into a career. I'm a lapsed machine learning person, who did a PhD in neural network architectures for bioinformatics problems just before everything took of with GPU acceleration. After that I was involved in bioinformatics & computational proteomics research for several years before moving into the field of High Performance Computing (HPC). I now work in the containers field, but with a slant toward their use in HPC and scientific computing.
As well as being a computer nerd I'm a music nerd. I've recently gotten back into buying vinyl, mostly 80s/90s dance music, and being a (poor, but improving) living room DJ :-)