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I've been essentially inactive publicly for a couple of years. I'll have more information in time, but the past couple of years have given me a lot of time to reflect and redefine parts of myself. This is step toward surfacing.master
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I am a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/">free (as in
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I am a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/">free (as in
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freedom) software</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacker</a>
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freedom) software</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacker</a>
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and user freedom activist with a focus on user privacy and security.
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and user freedom activist with a focus on user privacy and security;
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I am a professional software engineer dealing primarily with web development;
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a professional software engineer;
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compiler construction; and software architecture, and have been
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and an <a href="https://www.gnu.org/contact/gnu-advisory">advisor to the GNU Project</a>.
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programming for about twenty years.
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My other personal interests include mathematics, cryptography,
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philosophy and ethics, pedagogy, writing, law, and various other fields.
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I also closely follow the work of
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the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/">Free Software
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Foundation</a>, <a href="http://eff.org/">Electronic Frontier
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Foundation</a>, and other entities devoted to free information and free
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society.
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I am a member of the
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I deal primarily with compiler construction and the creation of
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<a href="https://www.gnu.org/contact/gnu-advisory">GNU Advisory Comittee</a>;
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domain-specific languages and abstractions to simplify the development
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an assistant GNUisance on the maintainers team;
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and improve the robustness of otherwise-complex systems.
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a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html">GNU software evaluation team</a>
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I historically did a lot of web development,
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(gnueval) member;
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and have been programming for over twenty
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the author of <a href="https://gnu.org/software/easejs">GNU ease.js</a>;
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years.
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and volunteer for various other aspects of
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Some of my personal interests include programming language
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the <a href="https://gnu.org/">GNU Project</a> and
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history and theory,
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the <a href="https://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>.
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formal methods and proofs,
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logic and type theory,
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cryptography,
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philosophy and ethics,
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and writing.
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I don't claim to be good at any of those things.
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The focus of my research in recent years has been pursuant to addressing
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problems of practical user freedom—to
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make various aspects of freedom in computing accessible to more users
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in concrete and tangible ways that are meaningful to them beyond
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abstract principle and philosophy.
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I am a <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacker</a>,
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I am a <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacker</a>,
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though I may (or may not) respond to queries on websites that I am a
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though I may (or may not) respond to queries on websites that I am a
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member of,
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member of,
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and I do host my <a href="https://pleroma.mikegerwitz.com/users/mikegerwitz">own Pleroma instance</a>,
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and I do host my <a href="https://pleroma.mikegerwitz.com/users/mikegerwitz">own Pleroma instance</a>,
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which is compatible with Mastodon.
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which is compatible with Mastodon;
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you can follow me on the fediverse via
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<tt>mikegerwitz@pleroma.mikegerwitz.com</tt>.
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(Note: This website itself is free/libre—the source code is
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(Note: This website itself is free/libre—the source code is
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