auspicacious

Descriptions are difficult; they never mean the same thing to everyone, and they decay over time. Better to leave it to our actions and words to speak for us.

That being said, I will attempt to mention a few things. I've built software for some companies that you've heard of and some that you haven't. I'm a product of Baltimore, Maryland, but after an unreasonable amount of world travel, I settled in Japan in 2019. Lately, I've been helping run Nerd Nite Tokyo; let me know if you'd like to speak.

This is unabashedly a personal site and contains whatever I'm interested in and feel is worth writing about. Within software I am interested in security, trust, privacy, and socially responsible engineering.

Fair warning, though: many years ago, I was a dual major in history and computer science, focused on the history of science, with a minor in political science focused on international relations thrown in for good measure, the leader of the university Linux users' group, and the last member of the university anime club. I once spent a summer traversing Europe to see concerts, mostly 1980s British musicians. "Whatever I'm interested in" can cover quite a lot.

You can follow me with:

• RSS; there is a site feed and there are feeds for each tag.
• Mastodon

You can contact me by email: at@auspicacious.org

I also have accounts on Facebook, news.yc, Bluesky, and Twitter, all of which I usually avoid using actively. They are linked here solely to confirm that they belong to me.

If you think my site is ugly, I agree. I'm willing to accept CSS submissions. No JavaScript, no external resources, no image files, no custom fonts, no assumptions that won't hold true on Linux, on Firefox, on screens with unusual dimensions, on eInk displays, on a mobile device, etc.

Finally, since there's no better place to link to it from -- many years ago, I owned a Rainbow 24 sailboat, which I bought for a dollar and restored. I've left the very old project page up, as it was in 2011.