My name is David McMackins. That’s me up there. Allegedly.
I’ve been programming computers since 2013 in a variety of languages. My favorites are Go, C (not C++), and Ruby. Professionally, I write Java. You can find most of my programming projects on GitHub. Some of them are under a different org I used when I thought I was going to be a freelancer. New projects are published on Codeberg.
Free software has been an important part of my life. I have successfully avoided proprietary software for many, many years now, and I could not be happier about that decision. I think it’s very important to value ownership and not to capitulate to ridiculous corporate demands and expectations.
Hobbies
I have only one hobby: collecting other hobbies. My collection includes:
- Amateur radio
- Photography
- Using old technology
- Music
- Tabletop role-playing games
- Target shooting
- Fountain pens
- RC aircraft
I also learned toki pona in 2021 for no good reason, and I have an unusual interest in traffic cones.
Contact Me
You can e-mail me at any time at contact@mcmackins.org. I use GnuPG (Enigmail) to encrypt my e-mails. If you’d like your e-mails to be truly private, I encourage you to use it as well. You can download my public key from this site.
You may also find me on the Libera Chat, OFTC, Rizon, and RetroNode IRC networks. My username is Zerock.
Social Media
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You can use this button to link to my website. The cloud illustration was made by kepler and released under a CC-BY license.
