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Jonathan
Freedman
Computer Using Person
Jonathan
Freedman
Computer Using Person
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Halifax, NS
1981-2008 Grew up surrounded by the ocean, trees, and computers. Stayed in the Maritimes until I ran out of startups.
Oakland, CA
2010-???? Currently trying to strike the balance manifesting creativity and a fulfilling career.
Montreal, QC
2009-2010 Ate poutine and wrote web services in C. Lived in the Snowdon neighborhood and commuted to Old Montreal every day in the snow.
2008-2009 Brooklyn, NY
Commuting from Flatbush to Williamsburg to work on a dream disguised as a startup.
Hexayurt Trip Report
I sometimes live in a tinefoil and cellulose hut in the middle of the desert.
magicbeam
An Erlang OTP application that provides some DevOps themed utilities. Live code reloading, interactive shell toolkit, and chaos monkey themed system hardening.
Artemiid
When someone asks if you want to go to the pirate marina to help launch an art boat you say yes
ANXS
A set of Ansible roles for common system dependencies.
Secret Key Service
I gave a talk at BSidesSF in 2017 on the Secret Key Service I am helping manifest at work using tools such as Hashicorp Vault and aomi
Hyperion
The intersection of an IoT powered smart home and circadian rhythms
Tribes That May Be
Interactive fiction / WiFi Hotspot mashup art project that has been to Burning Man twice and Ephermerisle once.
The Regrettable Attrition of a Hero
An essay on how perpetuating the myth of hero engineers leads to Devops burnout.
Safety 7th
Some writing on the spectrum of personal safety thresholds
MacGyvers' Union
Founding member of Local #001 located in Black Rock City, Nevada
imgix
I work here.
aomi
A writeup of some open source I wrote to help manage Secrets in the Hashicorp Vault project
lachash
The lachash tool allows for easy exchange of secrets via Hashicorp Vault
libsecondlife
Some open source software I was involved with early on got written up in The Register after virtual world drama.
Agile Inner Source
I spent a fair bit of time at Autodesk building inner source communities within a large publically traded company.
BRC GPE
I volounteer with the Black Rock City Gate Perimeter and Exodus department every year just outside of Gerlach, Nevada.
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