It's been a been a very interesting ride. I mean makes up almost 20% of my life, being here.

So one thing that I've learned while I've been here in 10 years, you want one thing no. My very first day hired to be a Ruby on Rails developer had no freaking clue what that was or even what MVC was at that time. Came from contracting world where mostly government contracts.

In that time I also picked up Go, Python a little bit of React, Javascript, how to be a DBA, security officer, privacy officer, asset management. Because I was a contractor, for what, eight years before I joined I guess.

I had to learn how to become a team member, opposed to just being off in my own little world and doing my own little thing. I learned how to be a contributor and a manager, an instructor and a learner all throughout that, every single day was either right up until now instructing or learning something new or teaching somebody something.

Mm hmm. I own it. I own everything, I own what I do. I own the work, I own the projects, the tasks, the errors and mistakes, the on-call errors, All of it. But at least I own it and I'm allowed to own it, just like everybody else.

Well actually my dad, in the late seventies, he was the vice principal of a middle school and they received an Apple II, this little box and stuff like that, looked at it and looked at me and look back at it and went, this scares me, I don't understand It, must be the future, learn it. So he hooked me up with one of his students who actually knew how to program it with a pencil and punch cards and feed it through a reader. And I learned how to program in AppleSoft way back in the 70's kind of a fun thing.

Well it was Hangman in AppleSoft with a six word dictionary walking around freaking stack of pencils and the erasers were hilarious.

Next thing I plan on learning, well it's either how to integrate HashCorp Vault into Kubernetes because I need to figure that out or how to use my Alaska mill. I have bought one a couple years ago and I haven't fired up and I've got trees I've gotta go mill. So one of the two.

Where you get to make this the access to education, more egalitarian world's changing. And without an education people are going to be left behind. We have the capability of allowing everybody to have that fair shot at success.

IDE: VIM (sometimes VSCode)

Programming Language: Don’t have one (bash?)

Operating System: WinNT 3.5.1 (was freaking bullet proof back in the day)

Keyboard Shortcut: :wq

Playlist/Genre/Artist: Don’t listen to music while working

Must have app: Navionics

Game/Gaming: Valheim