Lanyards by day, terminals by night.
My dayjob involves work across front-end Web tech in the not-for-profit sector, though my preferred digital dwelling is the command line and the back-end, among unix-derivatives and non-commercial indie tech.
Outside of working life, I have spent the best part of my 20s and early 30s involved in small social movements and organising efforts against local economic injustice and its extensions in the UK's 'hostile environment' policies towards refugees, migrants and asylum seekers. I believe another world is possible: sustainable, caring, cooperative.
My interests in digitality come from a broader interest in wanting to understand and work through the media ecologies that surround us, as well as some inkling of hope in the possibilities of digital tech in finding a world in common; a world of attended-to rather than exploited resource, sharing, mutual aid and cooperation.
After years facing only the consumer front-end of digital tech, I began a process of starting to open up the hood and explore unix-derivative computing a few years back - and now I'm hooked. I run Arch purely because this is the distro I began with as I felt it presented a good opportunity for learning - building systems up from scratch, breaking and learning by fixing. Some people laugh when I say this, but I maintain that this is a great way to learn - if you're interested in understanding the machine, get one that gives you a good opportunity to maintain, tinker, discover, etc. These days, while I still run Arch through familiarity, I'm increasingly interested in switching to a BSD operating system - I just haven't yet made the leap.
I'm interested in:
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