~jrc/

Hello, world :)

Me on the Web

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Stack Overflow
• GitHub
• Keybase

Ideas I Like

• Intelligence augmentation, “tools for thought”, especially End-user programming and “authoring tools” (e.g. HyperCard)
• Natural Language Processing (NLP) applied to cooking recipes
• Interactive Fiction (IF), e.g. Infocom text adventure games
• Gardening/horticulture, both low-tech (permaculture) and high-tech (Controlled Environment Agriculture, vertical farming)

Issues I Care About

• Public transit, international train travel
• Food system resilience
• Right to repair
• Climate change, particularly adaptation
• Social justice, including wealth equality and diversity & inclusion

FAQ

Why the “plus”?

When I was at CMU, the email system did fuzzy common name matching by default, so you could write a full 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 went by jrc+, and it stuck.