It's me, Jordan.

By trade I'm a software engineer, but I don't like a trade equating to one's identity. I only mention it because by personality I'm a coder. My brain seems to be a relational database, and the pure logic of coding sits comfortably within the folds of my brain. I figure out how things work, examining systems in my day-to-day. Not just software; societies, people, media, and ecosystems. I built this site for 3 reasons: nobody believes me when I say I don't have a social media presence, I enjoy a creative outlet with which I can scream into the void, and a domain without a site is like a bag without contents - begging to be filled.

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Asides

Most things about me are unrelated to being an amazing Software Engineer.

Roamer, Wanderer, Nomad, Vagabond

Travel

Call me what you will (bonus points for the melody playing in your head). I never liked the idea of being tied to a place, so I'm not. The world is a big place, and every part of it has it's own quirks. I have intentionally crafted my life so that I get to experience those quirks every day.

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The Marrow of Life

Lifestyle

I heard some variation of what most of us hear: "Grow up", "Settle down", "Build a life". As far as advice goes, I've received worse (there was this thing about kiwi skins - so many wasted years). It was the unspoken addendum that didn't sit right with me: "And then die". There had to be more than that, and with the unwavering confidence of youth, I knew it was there and I knew I could find it.

Comfort? Nah. Risk!

Philosophy

At one point, someone must have told me about the "comfort zone". And then I had to have heard an anecdote about getting out of it to grow and progress. No clue when or where, but it got internalized. So much so that I have been told that my comfort zone is being out of my comfort zone. If it seems scary or weird, that's a reason to do it, not a reason to avoid it.

Current Contributions

In this day and age, the noise is so pervasive that the signal often gets lost. Since the dawn of time, technology has generally improved lives. These are my contributions, or the things that might be.

fog-bank

Work in progress

A bash script to help you build your homelab. Designed to utilize open source technologies to give you and yours an experience similar to the one you've come to expect from tech companies, only you are the user, not the product. Setup once, seemless forever.

TW-Skrypt

Early development

A writing plugin built on TiddlyWiki, borrowing structural ideas from tools like Scrivener and Manuskript for a more freeform, hackable take on long-form writing and worldbuilding.

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