about.md (8770B)
1 +++ 2 title = "About me" 3 +++ 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: `9EF6 957A F673 652E 4AB5 542D BBE4 5868 CBE8 A8FE` 71 72 ``` 73 -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- 74 75 mQENBE0G6d4BCADI58H/bjS8sRspoPYPIss1ZRignBaiinaYawvZqptwtaAp7C/c 76 nYDRXXaIZiPc/zvGVgKuZCfs2AiN1SdsonBu48LjHxW9ORe4AXqNHgeiO5emKeKR 77 5z0U18uUPs/C3LzNTLts1chlPmBOPL90A4rK+ZaQOYxjDhDJd2vUgCicPhFLljjS 78 7Wr5BrLEg9OqmOxrbK/tvJY4fiY+S37jL8wrWaElXPZIxGXbF4ddnn4dmwcKyMOc 79 89FnwiXNqsXNfji7DyLMuXViRRMABP1Tp/HmEz0n8RCLXfVC8kcxkNbZMd4jXoVV 80 3j6WEPv2AUeVBjAqHRVB7dE+18glGT7I2uZNABEBAAG0IENocmlzIEJyYWNrZW4g 81 PGNocmlzQGJyYWNrZW4uanA+iQFYBBMBCABCAhsDBgsJCAcDAgYVCAIJCgsEFgID 82 AQIeAQIXgAIZARYhBJ72lXr2c2UuSrVULbvkWGjL6Kj+BQJlQvcDBQkaHUClAAoJ 83 ELvkWGjL6Kj+Mb4H/0f0N+Ta8G1cWOAmm7OchDhN9X9XIxrYW+REBnA8/54uqlMa 84 EIwEqbq5GTdL5abBoZA3SP9ZGPXR4w4ZcnXTtl9sX6knqYzJz4jqLGO0WQErSqxO 85 tEeI+PM+EwCgccau1ZzXMbFCsNKMYFmZ6jtGeefuv2ks8/zJ8TXNNqkFSpPZpY1s 86 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[email]: mailto:chris@bracken.jp 161 [pubkey]: https://chris.bracken.jp/cbracken.asc 162 [ownership_proof]: https://chris.bracken.jp/pgp_verify.txt 163 [site_repo]: https://git.bracken.jp/blog 164 [dart]: http://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/ 165 [flutter]: http://github.com/flutter/flutter/ 166 [fuchsia]: http://fuchsia.googlesource.com/