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1. SecondJon (secondjon@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Aug-2018 18:13:31 UTC SecondJon

   • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   Thanks for the welcome, #@freemo Here's my #introduction .

   I'm...
   • a dad of a handful of kiddos, married, living in Colorado.
   • a Christian in the Anglican tradition, and suppose I'm an unaffiliated conservatarian.
   • a reader, working through the great novels as well as easier/fun books and nonfiction.
   • a card and board game player and am happily teaching more to my kids as they get older.
   • short on free time. I enjoy a philosophical pipe as I read and/or reflect, and occasionally get my guitar or bow/arrows out to learn new skills.
   • a software developer... and have been for a very long time, now in the world of APIs and cloud development (CRM/SFDC).

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   • SecondJon (secondjon@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Aug-2018 18:14:59 UTC SecondJon

     in reply to

     When reading Ready Player One I realized that my first programming was as a kid editing programs on a TRS-80 (or something similar). First among our friends to have a desktop at home where we'd dial into our local #BBS to play games, chat, and message with people from around the world, back when it didn't seem so creepy when you'd be asked "a/s/l" regularly.

     Later with the Internet I wondered why companies were buying up and shutting down services like WBS and Geocities, and was sad that what we had left was corporately driven social media mega sites.

     I've been doing software development for decades, professionally since my first year of undergrad where I studied #linguistics; but I think my real work is problem solving to make people's lives easier/better, software is just the tool I'm skilled with to do that.

     I chose the QOTO instance because the rules seem open and free and friendly, the way the web should be... and because of the idea of helping bridge the gap and bring people of supposed opposite sides together to connect rather than be polarizing.

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