tychoish https://tychoish.com/ Recent content on tychoish hugo en-us Licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Posts https://tychoish.com/post/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://tychoish.com/post/ About https://tychoish.com/about/ Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://tychoish.com/about/ <p>tychoish.com is an eclectic blog on programming, documentation, software development, folk dance, science fiction literature, cyborgs, political economy, emacs, Common Lisp, Go, shape note singing, and hand knitting.</p> <p>tycho garen (and tychoish) are the digital identities of Sam Kleinman, a Brooklyn-based software engineer and writer.</p> <h1 id="biography">Biography</h1> <p>I grew up in St. Louis<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> and went to college in southern Wisconsin, before moving to the east coast, and finally settling in Brooklyn.</p> <p>As a young human, I was always nerdy I have memories of tinkering with old computers and even trying to install Linux on them, without a lot of success. For whatever reason I was never particularly into science/math as a kid, and ended up majoring in Psychology and Women&rsquo;s and Gender Studies. I also rushed through college in 3 years. While I think I probably picked the wrong major,<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup> finishing early was definitely the right choice: I had learned a lot and <em>really</em> didn&rsquo;t want to be in rural Wisconsin any more.</p> <p>For a couple of years, I lived in my hometown taught knitting lessons, writing a bunch, and disabusing myself of the idea that I wanted to go to graduate school. While I think that intellectualism remains central for me, I realized that I was actually quite interested in technology and computers, and also that somewhere in all of my formal education I&rsquo;d managed to figure out how to get pretty good at teaching myself new things, relatively unassisted.</p> <p>I started by writing documentation, which really ironed out a bunch of personal writing and editing idiosyncrasies, and eventually discovered through that I rather enjoyed doing sys-admining and software development work, and so here I am.</p> <p>Meanwhile, I&rsquo;d moved to the Philadelphia area and eventually New York City, the former being somewhat expected up until that point, and the later being totally surprising. In 2014 I moved to Brooklyn and it felt great, and I&rsquo;ve never really looked back. I&rsquo;m still making software, still doing cool things with Linux, still thinking about how people build technology, and how our decisions about technology impact our lives and our world.</p> <h1 id="blogging">Blogging</h1> <p>At one point I tried to separate blogging into different topics and areas, personal journals, topical material, technical projects, and so forth, and it never really seemed to work out: I have a lot of different interests and while I enjoy writing about what I&rsquo;m working on, but I don&rsquo;t think I want to personally be responsible for a small publishing empire, though there are categories and you can subscribe only to specific segments of blog, if you like.</p> <p>In general, I&rsquo;ve been writing a lot recently about a few areas, and don&rsquo;t expect that this will change much in the coming months and years:</p> <ul> <li>specific technologies and my projects with them: Common Lisp, Emacs, some application infrastructure projects in the Go programming language.</li> <li>trends in contemporary technology and software development, ranging from the organization of technical teams, to the ways that various trends in software delivery impact the way that we build software</li> <li>personal journal, to record more personal details or accounts of things I&rsquo;m thinking about or working on.</li> <li>knitting, to reflect on current projects, share ideas, and insights.</li> </ul> <p>There may be other posts that address other topics, but as a genreal guide line that should cover the main points.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m super interested in hearing from folks both via email or comments. Be in touch!</p> <h1 id="colophon">Colophon</h1> <p>tychoish.com is published using a custom version <a href="https://gohugo.io/">hugo</a>, that uses <a href="https://github.com/tychoish/shimgo/">shimgo</a> that cuts the build time by about an order of magnitude.</p> <p>Comments rely on <a href="https://disqus.com/">disqus</a>.</p> <h1 id="notes">Notes</h1> <div class="footnotes" role="doc-endnotes"> <hr> <ol> <li id="fn:1"> <p>Yeah, yeah, Metro High School.&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p> </li> <li id="fn:2"> <p>If I got a chance to choose again, I think I would do a double major in Anthropology and History.&#160;<a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p> </li> </ol> </div> Archive https://tychoish.com/archive/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tychoish.com/archive/ Search https://tychoish.com/search/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tychoish.com/search/