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