I am a Gen X dude (he/him/his) who has been online since the days of V.23 and 9-pin dot matrix printers; I cut my teeth, like everybody else in the early 1980s, programming BASIC and 6502 assembler while listening to the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy on the radio; these days I'm into Go, Lisp, SwiftUI, TypeScript, et al.; I know more than enough to be dangerous in C, C++, PostScript, PHP, and Python; my tcp packets arrive via an optical cable (FTTH FTW).

I am typical of Gen X in that I am busy getting on with my thing and don't feel the need to humblebrag to the whole world about my accomplishments; I don't care about followers or acquiring kudos or the need for validation or whatever; my musical taste is pretty eclectic (initially influenced by Tangerine Dream, Yello, and Can) and I've recently discovered opera (and when it comes to Il barbiere di Siviglia, my preference is for the performance by Callas and Gobbi).

I was born and raised in London, England and spent too much of my youth listening into the late night on the radio to LBC's Nightline; I graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Design and Innovation; I have a Master in Fine Art (MFA); I did cut-and-paste when that meant using a 10A scapel and 3M Spray Mount; I live in the EU.

If you haven't already done so, I highly recommend that you read Albert-László Barabási's Linked, Douglas Coupland's Microserfs, William Gibson's Neuromancer, Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile, and Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motocycle Maintenance.