~jrc/

Hello, world :)

Me on the Web

• Twitter @jrcplus, Mastodon @jrcplus@mastodon.social, Bluesky @jrcpl.us
• LinkedIn
• Stack Overflow
• GitHub
• Keybase

Areas of Interest

• Software as a Medium
  • “bicycles for the mind”, “tools for thought”, end-user programming, “authoring tools” (e.g. HyperCard, Flash), malleable systems (e.g. Smalltalk, Lisp)
  • Small computing, Home-cooked software
  • e.g. https://obsidian.md/about, https://www.notion.so/about, https://paper.mmm.dev/, https://www.val.town/about
  • Local-first software, Permacomputing, One-page computers
  • Future of Coding
• Food Tech
  • ideas: recipes as data, menus as data, interactive visual recipes, API for supermarkets
  • gardening/horticulture, both low-tech (permaculture) and high-tech (Controlled Environment Agriculture, vertical farming)* Interactive Fiction (IF), Infocom, text adventure games, Alternate Reality Games (ARGs)
• Impact (deep ecology, climate change, social justice, wealth equality)
  • Repurposing older hardware, Right to repair
  • Public transit, international train travel
  • Food system resilience

FAQ

Why the “plus”?

When I was at Carnegie Mellon University, the email system did fuzzy common name matching by default, so you could write a person’s name e.g. harry.bovik@andrew.cmu.edu and it would try to deliver it to the right mailbox. If you added a plus sign (+), the system would do an exact match instead of a fuzzy match, i.e. the + character makes it unambiguous. So in practice, I was jrc+, and it stuck.