I’m originally from England but, paradoxically it seems, I don’t like tea. I certainly don’t have tea in my leg, nor a leg made of tea. No, no, `tealeg` is just my username. It was proffered to me by the IT department of Rentokil Initial PLC, my first place of work after university, in 1998.
The handle `tealeg` consists, boringly, of my surname followed by the first letter of my forename, but this combination has the rare advantage of being both easily pronounced and somewhat meaningful when broken down into the words “tea” and “leg”. Thus I have clung to it somewhat and carried it with me wheresoever I might roam in what was once known as “cyberspace”.
At some point along the line, people I knew online started to refer to me by that name, quite naturally, and when I started remote-working, way back in 2008, it became more prominent as my colleagues tended to interact with me primarily via chat clients and git repositories.
I live and work in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
I started programming, as a child, in 1983, and have made a living from it since 1998.
I have been involved in the Free / Libre and Open Source Software movement since the early 1990s.
Pronouns: "He", "Him"
Mastodon <@tealeg@mastodon.online>
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