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, SwiftUI, TypeScript, et al, and 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).

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.