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1 <!doctype html> 2 <html lang="en"> 3 <head> 4 <meta charset="utf-8"> 5 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> 6 <title>About me - Chris Bracken</title> 7 <link href="/css/site.css" rel="stylesheet"> 8 <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/favicon/apple-touch-icon.png"> 9 <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/favicon/favicon-32x32.png"> 10 <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/favicon/favicon-16x16.png"> 11 <link rel="manifest" href="/favicon/site.webmanifest"> 12 <link rel="mask-icon" href="/favicon/safari-pinned-tab.svg" color="#140f42"> 13 <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon/favicon.ico"> 14 <link rel="me" href="https://famichiki.jp/@akande"/> 15 <meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#603cba"> 16 <meta name="msapplication-config" content="/favicon/browserconfig.xml"> 17 <meta name="theme-color" content="#ffffff"> 18 </head> 19 <body> 20 <header id="header"> 21 <div class="site-title"> 22 <h1><a href="/">Chris Bracken</a></h1> 23 </div> 24 25 <nav class="site-navbar"> 26 <ul id="menu" class="menu"> 27 <li class="menu-item"><a class="menu-item-a" href="/">Home</a></li> 28 <li class="menu-item"><a class="menu-item-a" href="/about/">About</a></li> 29 <li class="menu-item"><a class="menu-item-a" href="/code/">Code</a></li> 30 </ul> 31 </nav> 32 </header> 33 <main id="main"> 34 <article> 35 <h2 class="post-title"><a href="https://chris.bracken.jp/about/">About me</a></h2> 36 <p>This site is mainly intended as a way to keep in touch with friends and 37 family in Canada and elsewhere while I’m off wandering the world from 38 one country to the next.</p> 39 <p>I’m a software developer who’s been fascinated by computers since I was 40 a kid. I wrote my first lines of BASIC and 6502 assembly on a Canadian 41 knock-off Apple II+ clone made by Apco, dutifully copying source 42 listings line-by-line from <em>Compute!</em> magazine. Working my way up 43 through a Laser Turbo XT and a 286, I finally landed on a 386 DX 44 clocking in at a whopping 33 MHz. It was on this machine that I first 45 installed Linux from a stack of 3.5" floppies and learned to code in 46 Pascal and C. A couple years later, sometime in the mid-90s, some 47 classmates convinced me I should check out FreeBSD, and because I’m 48 used to it, but also out of sheer laziness, I’ve been using it as my 49 main home setup pretty much ever since.</p> 50 <p>I headed off to university sometime in the early 90s. Seven years later, 51 after wandering aimlessly from faculty to faculty through Chemistry, 52 Physics & Astronomy, Japanese, and Electrical and Computer engineering 53 programmes, I decided enough was enough, grabbed my B.Eng., and booted 54 myself out the door and into the world.</p> 55 <p>Initially, I moved south of the border to spend a couple years in 56 California working on AutoCAD at Autodesk. Deciding that this wasn’t 57 south-of-the-border enough, I packed my bags and headed to Mérida, 58 México, which sits neatly within the borders of the Chicxulub crater 59 where the asteroid that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction 60 event landed. I spent the year writing point-of-sale software for a 61 local art gallery, doing some travelling, and doing some teaching on the 62 side.</p> 63 <p>A year later, as my visa neared its end, I started wandering my way back 64 to Canada via Cuba, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras before remembering 65 which way was north and zig-zagging my way slowly back home on 66 third-class buses.</p> 67 <p>A couple years later, after some more hacking on 3D CAD software, I 68 picked up my few possessions and moved to Tokyo, Japan, where I met my 69 wife, learned to speak, read, and write Japanese, got married, and had 70 kids. I’ve had the pleasure of working on a variety of projects ranging from 3D 71 CAD software, to equities trading systems, to the 72 <a href="http://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/">Dart programming language</a>, the <a href="http://github.com/flutter/flutter/">Flutter SDK</a>, and the 73 <a href="http://fuchsia.googlesource.com/">Fuchsia operating system</a>. I currently work on open source projects at 74 Google.</p> 75 <p>You can drop me a line anytime at <a href="mailto:chris@bracken.jp">chris@bracken.jp</a>. (en, fr, ja)</p> 76 <h2 id="about-this-site">About this site</h2> 77 <p>This site contains no tracking, no cookies, and no JavaScript. It should 78 work well with screen-readers and text-mode browsers. My web skills are 79 near-nonexistent, so if you’ve got feedback on how it could be improved, 80 shoot me an email.</p> 81 <p>You can find the source and instructions on how to build the site 82 <a href="https://git.bracken.jp/blog">here</a>.</p> 83 <h2 id="pgp-public-key">PGP public key</h2> 84 <p>If you’re a fan of crypto, you can find my public key below, or 85 <a href="https://chris.bracken.jp/cbracken.asc">download it</a>. I’ve also posted 86 <a href="https://chris.bracken.jp/pgp_verify.txt">proof of ownership</a> of this site.</p> 87 <p>GPG fingerprint: <code>A675C99848CEF8642180465EE15C4E854923C76C</code></p> 88 <pre tabindex="0"><code>-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- 89 90 mDMEaGFzuhYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAc50JBE36Cc2BBCQgMl3BrUGgTgbIcKoaJQLY 91 8C38QZG0IENocmlzIEJyYWNrZW4gPGNocmlzQGJyYWNrZW4uanA+iJkEExYKAEEW 92 IQSmdcmYSM74ZCGARl7hXE6FSSPHbAUCaGFzugIbAwUJAeKFAAULCQgHAgIiAgYV 93 CgkICwIEFgIDAQIeBwIXgAAKCRDhXE6FSSPHbL8tAQCnFP5qJn7MTH0SaukmFqyi 94 2OkbOE0us6s2RTPtK+YuAwEAm01WMJmEC68QXJXPBK5CZQyJH2Eq6NzpiJO8AFg1 95 8A6JATMEEAEIAB0WIQSe9pV69nNlLkq1VC275Fhoy+io/gUCaGF1FgAKCRC75Fho 96 y+io/j2YB/9ir1kIX3Ql57ZTHzBb7vCrptGO1erjSC4dfHUranK7LapQuMMO0ILe 97 u7H3J6yBozAyskKvIjwJKVgWSO83PHZZdqjyvJUuwV2wWI2p2RowD5PUSjGczm+p 98 Aaiowd7QwtXMdWyHDH+CDi9aJfAv+IU3O7NKybkvE2hN0jFqzV48uzT/wsMTKx6U 99 Q0iNjKpLg6zarRL+GTs8bKjKK9hkRxg5Km19h19KErAKMOU8YDA6RGh7Uq6h/D1R 100 LvXkrk7faT3TGaOAUEdKZvU2ebr5dY0u54BmidK+k5oQhGsET53+zQ9R+QH2olAO 101 6kBgNu4ABqoD+jeGfx+9xrawidXyNlS5uDgEaGFzuhIKKwYBBAGXVQEFAQEHQOAq 102 lc3NkARc/TYXs7DAIp1uERKlacaI/ylR2rwNzFZhAwEIB4h+BBgWCgAmFiEEpnXJ 103 mEjO+GQhgEZe4VxOhUkjx2wFAmhhc7oCGwwFCQHihQAACgkQ4VxOhUkjx2z05AD/ 104 SSZCTyisFf9KR9IoKZI/FJevMgQuzrxfAIH5o/BQOaYA/2fC7Y8IPvh/VhHEZYke 105 xVlxyvHnofZwuQM0XjQnlSwN 106 =0tI6 107 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- 108 </code></pre></article> 109 </main> 110 111 <footer id="footer"> 112 <div class="copyright"> 113 <span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"> 114 The content of this site by 115 <a rel="cc:attributionURL" href="https://chris.bracken.jp/about"><span rel="cc:attributionName">Chris Bracken</span></a> 116 is 117 <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">CC BY 4.0</a>. 118 </span> 119 </div> 120 </footer> 121 </body> 122 </html>