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      2 title = "About me"
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      4 
      5 This site is mainly intended as a way to keep in touch with friends and
      6 family in Canada and elsewhere while I’m off wandering the world from
      7 one country to the next.
      8 
      9 I'm a software developer who's been fascinated by computers since I was
     10 a kid. I wrote my first lines of BASIC and 6502 assembly on a Canadian
     11 knock-off Apple II+ clone made by Apco, dutifully copying source
     12 listings line-by-line from _Compute!_ magazine. Working my way up
     13 through a Laser Turbo XT and a 286, I finally landed on a 386 DX
     14 clocking in at a whopping 33 MHz. It was on this machine that I first
     15 installed Linux from a stack of 3.5" floppies and learned to code in
     16 Pascal and C. A couple years later, sometime in the mid-90s, some
     17 classmates convinced me I should check out FreeBSD, and because I'm
     18 used to it, but also out of sheer laziness, I've been using it as my
     19 main home setup pretty much ever since.
     20 
     21 I headed off to university sometime in the early 90s. Seven years later,
     22 after wandering aimlessly from faculty to faculty through Chemistry,
     23 Physics & Astronomy, Japanese, and Electrical and Computer engineering
     24 programmes, I decided enough was enough, grabbed my B.Eng., and booted
     25 myself out the door and into the world.
     26 
     27 Initially, I moved south of the border to spend a couple years in
     28 California working on AutoCAD at Autodesk. Deciding that this wasn't
     29 south-of-the-border enough, I packed my bags and headed to Mérida,
     30 México, which sits neatly within the borders of the Chicxulub crater
     31 where the asteroid that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
     32 event landed. I spent the year writing point-of-sale software for a
     33 local art gallery, doing some travelling, and doing some teaching on the
     34 side.
     35 
     36 A year later, as my visa neared its end, I started wandering my way back
     37 to Canada via Cuba, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras before remembering
     38 which way was north and zig-zagging my way slowly back home on
     39 third-class buses.
     40 
     41 A couple years later, after some more hacking on 3D CAD software, I
     42 picked up my few possessions and moved to Tokyo, Japan, where I met my
     43 wife, learned to speak, read, and write Japanese, got married, and had
     44 kids. I've had the pleasure of working on a variety of projects ranging from 3D
     45 CAD software, to equities trading systems, to the
     46 [Dart programming language][dart], the [Flutter SDK][flutter], and the
     47 [Fuchsia operating system][fuchsia]. I currently work on open source projects at
     48 Google.
     49 
     50 You can drop me a line anytime at [chris@bracken.jp][email]. (en, fr, ja)
     51 
     52 
     53 ## About this site
     54 
     55 This site contains no tracking, no cookies, and no JavaScript. It should
     56 work well with screen-readers and text-mode browsers. My web skills are
     57 near-nonexistent, so if you've got feedback on how it could be improved,
     58 shoot me an email.
     59 
     60 You can find the source and instructions on how to build the site
     61 [here][site_repo].
     62 
     63 
     64 ## PGP public key
     65 
     66 If you're a fan of crypto, you can find my public key below, or
     67 [download it][pubkey]. I've also posted
     68 [proof of ownership][ownership_proof] of this site.
     69 
     70 GPG fingerprint: `A675C99848CEF8642180465EE15C4E854923C76C`
     71 
     72 ```
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     74 
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     91 =0tI6
     92 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
     93 ```
     94 
     95 [email]: mailto:chris@bracken.jp
     96 [pubkey]: https://chris.bracken.jp/cbracken.asc
     97 [ownership_proof]: https://chris.bracken.jp/pgp_verify.txt
     98 [site_repo]: https://git.bracken.jp/blog
     99 [dart]: http://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/
    100 [flutter]: http://github.com/flutter/flutter/
    101 [fuchsia]: http://fuchsia.googlesource.com/