MATTHEW GRAYBOSCH: FULLSTACK THAUMATURGE ======================================== I'm a self-taught software developer and sysadmin from New York exiled to the wilds of central Pennsylvania. I build cathedrals on quicksand from blueprints scribbled on bar napkins, and more often than not the result works. CONTACT INFO ------------ You can reach me by sending email to . You will not find me active on any major parasocial media platform. HOW TO FOLLOW ME ---------------- Add one of the feeds below to your to your favorite feed reader. - - - - - You should also be able to view these feeds in your web browser. Thanks to XSLT they should render as if they were HTML. MORE ABOUT ME ------------- I'm a husband, cat friend, and co-protector of a great big trauma puppy that my wife rescued from a shelter. My wife and I met on a Yahoo! forum in 2000, met in person for the first time in 2002, and got married in 2004. In the meantime we courted via email and instant messaging with weekly phone calls. We've been through a lot together, and while I had some doubts before I got married I have no regrets. Though I'm a software developer by trade, I'm not "passionate" about tech. In fact, I don't think of what I do as a career; to me it's just my day job, something I do so I can afford hobbies like reading and writing sci-fi, listening to heavy metal, playing video games, and traveling with my wife. I work to live rather than living to work. If being a janitor paid as much as coding, I'd go back to sweeping floors and scrubbing toilets; either way I'm cleaning up after other people. I've outlived the vast majority of my work, so kindly pardon my cynicism about the tech industry. Nevertheless, I take pride in doing good, solid work on time and within budget while using the right tools for the job at hand. I also like to tinker with secondhand computers and run GNU/Linux (mainly Slackware) and OpenBSD on them. In addition to maintaining this website, I maintain a site for my wife, Catherine Gatt[0]. I maintain another for my science fantasy saga, Starbreaker[1]. I completed my first novel in 2009, and in the 2010s published a couple of novels and several short stories. However, my publisher -- Curiosity Quills Press -- folded in early 2019 and ghosted every author they had under contract. Between that and some other personal difficulties (not to mention surviving COVID-19), I have struggled to continue writing. I play too many video games. My PSN tag is EddieVanHelsing. I mainly play Elden Ring, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Persona 5 Royal, the remastered SaGa Frontier, and Final Fantasy XIV. Heavy metal saved my life. There's a story there and someday I might bother to tell it. ### MISCELLANEOUS ### ABILITY | SCORE --------|------ STR | 10 DEX | 14 CON | 14 INT | 18 WIS | 12 CHA | 12 TYPE | RESISTANCE ----------|----------- sword | normal gun | normal fire | weak lightning | weak ice | strong wind | strong psychic | strong nuclear | normal holy | null dark | reflect VARIABLE | VALUE -----------|------ $LOCALE | en_US $SHELL | /bin/zsh $EDITOR | /usr/local/bin/emacs $ALIGNMENT | chaotic neutral $PERSONA | Odysseus $PRONOUNS | they/them ABOUT THIS WEBSITE ------------------ This is a "shinobi" website[2], based on a project by Bradley Taunt[3]. Rather than clamoring for attention, it hides in plain sight. If you know how to find it, you can. Otherwise it abides in the shadows, ready to be seen when you are ready to see it. Likewise for my posts; if you know how to use a RSS reader you can follow me by adding one of the feeds listed above to your feed reader. If you're on a Mac like me I recommend NetNewsWire[4]. By way of disclosure: my site is hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.net[5]. This site's public git repository is available at . PRIVACY POLICY -------------- I don't want your data. I don't collect your data. You should not get any cookies while visiting this website, there are no analytics, and I have access logging disabled when not debugging technical issues. ADVERTISING POLICY ------------------ I do not host advertising of any kind here. There is no sponsored content on this website. My personal website is not a billboard. I will never host advertising here. It doesn't cost me much to operate this website, so I can easily pay the expenses out of the salary I get from my day job. LINKS ----- [0]: https://catherinegatt.com/ [1]: https://starbreaker.org/ [2]: https://shinobi.website/ [3]: https://tdarb.org/ [4]: https://netnewswire.org/ [5]: https://nearlyfreespeech.net/ ***** © 2022 Matthew Graybosch, all rights reserved Kudos to Flames to /dev/null