Hack on. Atlanta-based artificer of high-performance warez.

There he goes: One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind, never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. —Hunter S. Thompson

The key to this joint, the key to staying on top of things, is treat everything like it's your first project, knahmsayin? Like it's your first day like back when you was an intern. Like, that's how you try to treat things like, just stay hungry. —Notorious B.I.G.

code stoned. debug sober. document drunk.

• active majors:

  • notcurses
  • growlight
  • omphalos
  • libnetstack

• inactive majors:

  • libtorque, SprezzOS
  • many, many others

• current primary non-Free effort: microsoft, principal satellite engineer (spacelord)

• as seen previously at:

  • google, nvidia, intel (senior/principal engineer)
  • luma, arrayfire (chief engineer)
  • dirty south supercomputers and waffles, sprezzatech, reflex security (founder)

• creator/instructor of CS4003UWS "UNIX Weapons School" at Georgia Tech

Favorite languages (youngest to oldest): Rust, x86 assembly, C, Prolog, Latin.

I am a Debian Developer, and a maintainer for Fedora, Alpine, Arch, and FreeBSD. I've got a Knuth check.

I thought of another moral, more down to earth and concrete, and I believe that every militant chemist can confirm it: that one must distrust the almost-the-same (sodium is almost the same as potassium, but with sodium nothing would have happened), the practically identical, the approximate, all surrogates, and all patchwork. The differences can be small, but they can lead to radically different consequences, like a railroad's switch points: the chemist's trade consists in good part of being aware of these differences, knowing them close up and foreseeing their effects. And not only the chemist's trade. —Primo Levi