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Temp Holding Page

Hello!

I am the old so there's far too much About Me to make a universal sum up for every potential audience, so instead, enjoy a random collection of media recommendations and an invitation to reach out if you have questions...

Not at all universal sum up

• 🤔 Bio: Personally responsible sentient creature. Big nerd energy.
• 🌱 Backstory #1: I've been writing code and teaching stuff for fun for more than 3 decades.
• 🤖 Backstory #2: I've been writing code and teaching stuff for monies for more than 2 decades.
• 🤖 Backstory #3: I've been managing teams on and off for fun and monies throughout those decades.
• 🐘 Community fact #1: I've been an Open Source enthusiast for >30 years.
• 🐘 Community fact #2: I've been serving the PHP community for >15 years.
• 🌈 Community fact #3: I've been serving underrepresented developer communities for >10 years.
• 📚 Book fact: I read a few hundred books a year, fiction and non fiction, from the silliest fluff to serious research.
• 🐐 Goat fact: I keep San Clemente Island goats (an endangered species) and we're registered as Chosen Family Herd.
• ✨ Special Interests: neuroscience, history, education, technology, systems.

Media recommendations

This is a currated but not definitive list. If you think I'd enjoy something based on what you see here, let me know! I'm always up to trade recommendations. 🥰

📚 Non fiction

• DevOps / effective management: Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
• Neuroscience: How Emotions Are Made
• Perspective: Thinking in Systems
• History: Humankind: A Hopeful History
• Philosophy: Immanuel Kant's Logic
• Social justice: The Sum of Us
• Prediction: Incerto (series)

📚 Fiction

• Aliens: The Gods Themselves, Hail Mary, Bobiverse (series)
• Cyborgs: Murderbot Diaries (series), Bobiverse (series)
• AI: Expeditionary Force (series), Robots & Foundation (series), All the Troubles of the World (short story)
• Romance: Knitting in the City (series), Anna Karinina, Saint of Steel (series)
• Vampires: Fred, the Vampire Accountant (series)

📚 Young readers

• Graphic novel: Nimona
• Historical fiction: The Perilous Gard
• War & propaganda: Ender's Game
• Social justice: The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas (short story)
• Philosophy: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

📽 Documentary

• Propaganda: The Century of the Self
• Money: Promises, Promises (audio)
• Technology: Connections (BBC - James Burke)

📽 Fiction (movies)

• War: Casablanca
• Plague: Seventh Seal
• Greed: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Vanity: Sunset Boulevard
• Action: Seven Samurai, Bladerunner, Constantine, Shawshank
• Horror: Get Out, Shirley, Alien, Aliens, 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Comedy: Real Genius, Deadpool, Clue, In & Out, Saving Face, But I'm a Cheerleader
• Femme Brutal: Hustlers, The Kitchen, Anna, La Femme Nikita, Midsommer
• Femme Sweet: Clueless, Legally Blonde, Last Holiday, First Wives Club, Spy, Birdcage
• Young viewers: Coco, Nausicaa Valley of the Wind, Moxie, The Half of It, Life is Beautiful

📺 Fiction (episodic)

• Cyborgs: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
• Jazz: Cowboy Bebop
• Historical fiction: I, Claudius, The Wire
• Detectives: Rizzoli & Isles, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Life, Midsummer Murders
• Murder: Dexter, Deathnote, The Haunting of Hill House
• Morality play: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Mr Robot
• Gay: Yuri!! On Ice
• Young viewers: The Muppet Show, StarTrek: Next Generation, Adventure Time, Stephen Universe