Note: I love learning and trying new things, so this is both incomplete and always changing.

The order of languages here is alphabetical (not ordered by preference or familiarity).

• c, c++, css, go, html, java, javascript, perl, php, python, sql, ruby, swift, typescript

• clojure, elixir, rust

• vscode, intellij (and the jetbrains family), vim, xcode
• git (and many other version control systems), jira, trello, ...
• AWS
• docker, kubernetes
• html, json, yaml, xml
• rails, react, redux, spring, vue

• cassandra, dgraph, elasticsearch, mysql, oracle, postgresql, redis

1. bash or zsh - I use them all the time, but if I'm going to write a script I'll use python, ruby, perl, ...
2. lisp - a first love, but alas

1. More AI/ML/NLP
2. More Go, Elixir, Rust, Python
3. More AWS, GCP, Azure
4. More Chinese
5. More Spanish

• Current Goals: learn a lot, work on hard problems with a great team, write, and meet interesting people.
• Spare time: I'm the organizer of three Pittsburgh-area meetup groups:
  • virtual writers (520 members)
  • non-fiction book club (1450 members)
  • virtual board games (1738 members)

: :

• Good Idea, Bad Metaphor, Great Resignation
• On Learning Chinese, Brains, and AI
• Understanding is All You Need
• Don't Looks at the Hand
• Let's Get Small
• Type Safety, Low-fat Diets, and Cheese
• The Joy of Coding
• Hidden Complexity is Complexity
• Putting the Fun in Functional
• Surprise! You Don't Exist
• Amor Fati and Wabi-Sabi
• The Whole Nine Yards
• How To Write
• Build an ark? Or nail pizza to the wall?
• I Am Groot!
• The Myth of Willpower
• Manly Mindfulness
• 11 Foods You Should Never Eat