I'm John! Nice of you to come by!
I'm a recent freelance developer after being the lead (often sole) developer for the MailCleaner anti-spam project and it's associated corporate backers, Fastnet then Alinto.
I am fortunate enough to be in a stable enough situation that I'm able to devote a lot of time to development on a recreational basis, as well as pursue other hobbies and projects. Currently I am:
- 📭 reviving MailCleaner through an entirely open source fork through the new organization SpamTagger.
- 🌱 planning a simplified fork of MailCleaner which will be more maintainable and dedicated to just filtering email and nothing else.
- ⚛️ playing around with building my own atomic (aka "immutable") operating system for personal use and one for SpamTagger.
- 📨 working on smaller personal coding projects which will see the light of day when they are somewhat less atrocious.
- 🧑🎓 practicing, mentoring on and contributing to Exercism.
- 🤝 contributing to other projects when I can.
- 🥼 building out my homelab and smarthome.
- 👷♂️ renovating my house to be airtight and as close as is reasonable to net-zero.
- 🤖 wordworking, electronics, and other projects.
You can look at my LinkedIn for a (slightly) more polished, professional profile. I'm pretty good at, or at least enjoy these things:
- 🐪 Perl - I know it is not sexy anymore, but man is it fun!
- 🌐 HTML/JS - I've been building websites for fun for longer than I've done anything else in tech and continue to write them from scratch to this day.
- 🥱 PHP, Python, Shell - Much less enthusiastic about these, but I know how to use them fairly well.
- 🐧 Linux - I've been a full-time Linux nerd for almost 15 years and have spent pretty much my entire working life using, administering and developing in Linux environments.
- 📨 Email - I've spent more than 10 years in email security, including administering various MTA, IMAP and LDAP servers in a Linux environment as well as writing programs to parse and modify email.
- 📦 Containers and Virtualization - I live my day-to-day life on my own container-based OS, inside additional development containers, as I build containerized applications and VMs.
I have not really had social media since I got rid of Facebook immediately after high school, so I'm a bit hard to get in touch with. If you want to get in touch with me, I'll probably see your messages on one of these:
- 🐘 Mastodon
- 🎮 Discord (mostly just in the Universal Blue server)