John Wq
What I'm up to /now
Last updated 2026-01-19.
At Home
- Living in Huntsville, AL
- Married for 13 years (and counting)
- Father figure to two Boston terriers, Merry (Meriadoc) and Gimli
At Work
- Platform Architect for a shmedium employee-owned technology company
- Improving the developer experience so devs can focus on writing code rather than how/where to build it
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Also:
- Plumbing pipelines
- Wrangling containers
- Casting automation spells
For Fun
- Riding a bicycle (0 miles (0 km) in the last 30 days)
- Racing my daily driver in autocross events
- Wrenching on a 1974 VW Karmann Ghia
- Fiddling (endlessly) with my Chezmoi-managed dotfiles
- Self-hosting a bunch of (mostly) container workloads in a little homelab
- Exploring Meshtastic, an open-source mesh radio network
- Learning German with Babbel
To Relax
- The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
- Homeland (Season 6)
- High Potential (Season 2)
- Fallout (Season 2)
- RuPaul's Drag Race (Season 18)
- Starfield (thanks to decky-lsfg-vk)
- Hollow Knight
- Fit for a King, Make Them Suffer, Spite, and 156/Silence (2025-11-30)
- Silence
(This is a /now page, where I share what's happening lately. If you have your own site, you should totally make one, too.)