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/ /| | / __ \/ __ \/ / / / __/ / / / __ \/ _ \ / / / / __ \/ _ \/ ___/ __ '/ __/ __ \/ ___/[38;2;160;0;192m
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/_/ |_/_.___/\____/\__,_/\__/ /_/ /_/ /_/\___/ \____/ .___/\___/_/ \__,_/\__/\____/_/[38;2;96;0;255m
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[32m
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This bulletin board system is built and operated by [38;2;90;255;0mDavid Quick[32m, also known as [38;2;90;255;0mSundog[32m.
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That's me! You can call me Dave, or David, or Sundog, and I use he/him as my pronouns (though
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I have nothing against they/them pronouns either if you prefer)
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At various points throughout my life, I
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- received my first computer, a [38;2;90;255;0mTimex Sinclair 1000[32m with [38;2;90;255;0mZilog Z80 processor[32m and 2 kilobytes of RAM
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- got the 16 kilobyte RAM expansion pack after I proved I could use all 2 kilobytes after a few
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weeks of teaching myself BASIC programming
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- learned my first real operating system in the form of [38;2;90;255;0mCP/M 2.2[32m running on a [38;2;90;255;0mKaypro 2X[32m
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- went online the first time with a [38;2;90;255;0m300 baud[32m direct connect modem to post messages on Citadel
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bulletin board systems
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- was paid for writing code for the first time using BASIC to handle scheduling a newspaper motor
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delivery route's invoices for our paper delivery person
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I have
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- worked as a professional musician, an FM radio disc jockey, a newspaper layout editor, and a
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short order cook
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- built a dial-up ISP using a Sparc 10, an Apple Workgroup Server 6150, a fractional T1 line,
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and a few dozen external modems
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- taught myself Solaris, TCP/IP networking, web design, bind, sendmail, and numerous other Unix
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programs and scripts in the process of building the ISP
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- registered more than five of the first 25,000 .com domain names
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- taught children how to build web sites
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- taught grandparents how to build web sites
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- taught rooms full of third-party software engineers how to leverage custom APIs on two continents
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- written web applications designed to be displayed on televisions before there were any smart
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televisions
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- built an online audio streaming radio station with thousands of unique daily listeners for an
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MMORPG community
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- built private chat functionality for a dating web site ranked in the top five worldwide before
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anyone had smartphones
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- built a custom video livestreaming infrastructure using commodity hardware and usable by
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completely non-technical end users before YouTube Live
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- been paid to write [38;2;90;255;0mAda, BASIC, C, C++, C#, COBOL, ColdFusion, ElasticSearch pipelines, HTML,
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Java, Javascript, various NoSQLs, Perl, PHP, Python, various SQLs, and x86 Assembler[32m,
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- at least a passing familiarity with a number of [38;2;90;255;0mlisps, schemes, and forths,[32m including some I
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have ported to various microcontrollers, as well as [38;2;90;255;0mGo, Lua, Rust, and Haskell[32m,
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- a public /28 IPv4 subnet on my home internet connection which hosts most of my personal
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infrastructure, including this raspberry pi 4 server
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- two nodes on a distributed federated microblogging network, one just for me and one for anyone
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who wants to have a place online to talk about music called [38;2;90;255;0mlinernotes.club[32m,
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- been called Sundog by my friends for a very long time
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- been on stage in front of thousands
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- been a consultant to more than one Fortune 50 company
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- been backstage at a Parliament Funkadelic show
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- a long tradition of listening to [38;2;90;255;0mjazz[32m all day every Sunday
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I've had
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- a cigar with John McAfee
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- drinks with Bruce Sterling
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- lunch with Phil Zimmerman
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- a single-digit employee number numerous times
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- a double-digit employee number with a company that successfully IPOed
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- a triple-digit employee number with a company with offices on five continents
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- a four-digit Slashdot UID
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- a seven-digit ICQ number
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- root on more servers than 99.999% of people who have ever lived
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and I want to
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- solve problems
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- build tools and toolsets
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- experiment
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- learn and teach
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- empower users
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- and [38;2;90;255;0mwork with you[32m to do those things
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Thanks for reading my bio! -- [38;2;90;255;0mSundog
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[32m
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P.S.: as a bonus for reading through all of that, I'll let you know about a command that isn't on the help menu.
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Try [38;2;90;255;0madventure[32m sometime.
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