I feel like I really know a few people on here. I’d like to change that.

Let me offer the first introduction:

I’m Sam from RVA. I use male pronouns. I have a wife and two daughters (11 and 8). My day job is in anesthesia software. I podcast and write for a magazine sometimes.

@mrbeefy now I’m feeling sleepy…

@cn I’m a hit at parties. “Let me tell you about this new way to literally put people to sleep”

@mrbeefy does RVA represent Rural Virginia?

@cn Shorthand for Richmond, VA.

@mrbeefy I could have [re]read your profile before asking; was charging iPhone, so attempting reply via Dialog (which seems to crash [on reply] only for me)

@vasta It is. Documentation, some reminder automation, quality improvement analytics, starting to get into more robotic drug administration.

@mrbeefy @vasta sounded (to me) like [closed–loop*] biofeedback, just enough of a given chemical to maintain respiration and heart rate at particular levels ❤️📈📉

* Tautology

@cn Not quite yet. Humans are too weird. Right now we’re getting into hyper-accurate measurement of how much of a drug a patient gets and computer-based infusion administration. Still all highly human-decision based.

@mrbeefy “Humans are too weird.” sounds like a @JohnPhilpin quote page entry; perhaps a slogan for the swag?

@mrbeefy Hi Sam! I’m David from Manila, Philippines. I just got married last month. My job is in IT but I’m trying to find a way to get into Mac and iOS development.

@mrbeefy Hi! 👋

I’m Zsolt Benke from Hungary. I’m getting married in July. I work as a freelance Ruby on Rails and iOS developer.

@zsbenke 👋🏾

@mrbeefy Hi! I'm Rose, I'm originally from the UK and live in Vienna, Austria. I'm a software developer and a cat person who sadly does not have a cat right now.

@dodi Congratulations! It's nice to meet you.

@rosemaryorchard It's nice to meet you Rose. I'm also a cat person. We have a cat named “Jelly” who loves humans, killing mice, and hates other cats.

@zsbenke Nice you meet you Zsolt! Congratulations on the coming wedding. I'm in my 13th year of marriage and it's sometimes hard to believe how much time has past.

@cn I prefer the truncated “Humans are weird” because we are.

@mrbeefy Hi Sam. I’m Darrell, from Michigan, living in New York. I’m an actor but quit trying to make a career of it and just work w my own company. Graphic designer of all sorts. And an incorrigible tinkerer. Nice to meet you!

@mrbeefy when it strays into “People are idiots”, we’re in trouble…

@mrbeefy Congrats! Do you have an advice for beginners? 😊

@kjaymiller 👋

@zsbenke Everyone’s different, but in my cisgender man/woman marriage we’ve had to be very deliberate about who does what parts of the emotional labor of the household. It’s far too easy to fall into “traditional” gender roles if you aren’t thinking on it intentionally.

@stokini Nice to meet you too Darrell. I’d love to hear more about the “incorrigible” bit. 😉

@mrbeefy Hey there Sam! I'm Chirag, based in Dubai. Tech guy at heart, recently been setting up a podcast network here and quite excited with what's coming over the next few months :)

@Chirag Nice to meet you Chirag. Running a podcast network seems like a near impossible task. I wish you every success.

@mrbeefy Howdy. I love the conversation this post started! My day job is in analytics for med device, so we share some industry overlap probably. I live at 7,000 feet of elevation in AZ, with small family and loud dog.

@cn @mrbeefy ... concurrence and added accordingly

john.philpin.com/quotes/

@JohnPhilpin weirdly john.philpin.com/quotes links to an older version of the page :o)

@mrbeefy Hello, Sam. I'm Joel from southern California. I work in a warehouse and enjoy playing around with new technology.

@JohnPhilpin I'm interested 😬

@mrbeefy Thanks! Well, maybe I fortunate but my fiancé has a very strong opinion about ignoring the classic gender roles of a household and I agree 100% with her. We share the work no matter what.

Except cooking! She loves to cook and I enjoy it as a beta tester. 🙂

@joelhamill Nice to meet you Joel. What’s your favorite technology of this exact moment?

@alans Nice to make your acquaintance Alan. I can clearly imagine the similar frustrations we must experience.

@mrbeefy I'm currently enjoying Micro.blog and looking around for services to setup and run my own blog. Nothing fancy just a static site that I can update easily. I use Postach.io right now and serve it out of an Evernote notebook which works okay. As for hardware, I'm a little behind because the newest toys I have are a refurbished Chromebook and a Fitbit Aria scale (which I still have to setup today).

@joelhamill Neat. I wish tinkering with web stuff brought me joy, but alas, I lack the patience it demands.

@zsbenke Oh, I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. Just that it takes constant work/awareness for even the most progressive partners to fight the subconscious patriarchy. 🙂

@mrbeefy hi Sam! 👋, i'm isaiah.

you might remember me from ADN. i make Mac software that helps regular people make nice websites. and sometimes build clients for failed social networks. i'm a northern californian who's (enjoying exile in austin)[https://torchystacos.com] for a few years. i don't have any pronoun preferences, and you can spell and pronounce my name any way that you like -- it's a toughie -- so creativity is encouraged. my shift key isn't broken, i just like the way lowercase letters look.

@mrbeefy I wouldn't go so far as bringing me joy ... more of a stratching of an itch to try new things and messing around to try to find enjoyment.

@isaiah Good to hear from you Isaiah. I’ll admit that when spelling your name I’ll often throw vowels in there in random order until it looks mostly right.

I still wear my Felix t-shirt. When asked I say “it’s an app that no longer exists for a service that no longer exists” RIP

@joelhamill I’ll count that as joy!

@mrbeefy I still have/wear the Felix shirt …

@cn It’s a great shirt.

@mrbeefy I have @joanna to thank for mine.

@mrbeefy my name is misspelled on my birth certificate, i had a high school teacher call me Elijah for a solid year, and there are dozens of correct spellings in various locales, and i really enjoy hearing all the different pronunciations. did a few extra vowels never hurt anyone? 😉

but Felix was Bill Kunz (TigerBears Software) -- I made Kiwi and Favd.

@isaiah Oh, I didn’t mean to imply you made it! I loved Kiwi and Favd. I was just waxing nostalgic about ADN days.

My Felix t-shirt helped me break the ice with a person who is now one of my good friends; we both wore it to the pool. He wrote the Swing app for Mac.

@mrbeefy I imagine you are correct!

@mrbeefy ah! i get it. yep. i made so many longstanding friends on ADN. it was a good thing while it lasted.

@isaiah @mrbeefy Speaking of ADN, I have an archive of all the posts and I've been thinking recently about what to do with them. Emailed the Internet Archive but didn't hear back, so might just put them online to be indexed. Feedback welcome.

@manton like ALL the posts -- everyone's?

@manton If you mean literally all the posts from the service, I would be interested in looking at this as a historical archive and/or from a platform-studies perspective.

@mrbeefy I have way too many hobbies, which results in knowing a little bit about a lot of things! I'm like a serial dabbler.

@isaiah All of them (but unfortunately not all photos). I spun up a server about a week before shutdown and downloading JSON of everything.

@jonesbp That's kind of what I hoped people would want to do. I just checked and it's 190 GB of data, so I got stalled with the next step of actually doing something with it.

@manton Half of me wants to dive into it like a diary. The other half wants all my posts to fade into the ether.

@manton That is very cool. I will email you some time soon if that’s alright.

@jonesbp Of course. Thanks!

@mrbeefy Looking forward to checking out your podcast.

@stokini I hope you like it!

@manton @jonesbp Historians to the rescue :-)

@svenseebeck Right, I'm sure most people didn't do an export.

@hjertnes thankyou - and added :

john.philpin.com/intereste...

@mrbeefy and i bet life would ensure that the two halves would spawn in exactly the opposite to what you want!

@JohnPhilpin awesome! I'm in Norway by the way :)

@hjertnes noted - thanks

@isaiah are you hanging out over here now? Good to see you if you are!

@manton Jason Scott (@textfiles) on Twitter might have ideas, if IA isn’t responsive. (It’s weird he isn’t here.)

@mrbeefy Hi there. I'm a lighting designer for live performance and I probably like tinkering in AppleScript and Racket a bit too much. :)

@cheesemaker i'm not giving up twitter yet. but their API nuttiness is making me feel like i'm gearing up for a @manton level rage-quit kind of a deal. it could totally happen.

@jeffmueller 👋

@Bruce Hi Bruce! Man, I love AppleScript.

@Bruce 🙌 racket!

@mrbeefy oh hey hey! I’m Eli. I live in Portland, Maine with my partner and kiddo and a lazy dog. I enjoy hacking around on underpowered computers (lately in various LISP dialects), biking, listening to podcasts and reading (technical manuals and comics mostly these days 😬). I work as a web and UX developer, but am looking to transition to doing more technical writing, DevOps, or project management at the moment.

@isaiah I was a happy Favd user.

@muncman ⭐️ thank you 🙏

@eli Howdy Eli! I also love comics. My favorite is Atomic Robo.

@mrbeefy I’m Jimmy, from Greenville, NC. I’m a pilot for a large fractional ownership operator (think timeshare for businesses jets). My wife and I have 3 kids (7yr girl, 4yr old

@mrbeefy Thanks! It's fascinating in many ways (lots to learn I guess) so that's keeping me going. Hoping to hit a few targets this year so the summer will be busy. Hoping to listen in to our podcast sometime this week :) Thanks for reaching out & look forward to seeing the community grow!

@mrbeefy very cool. Every pilot I know has a few interesting stories.

@mrbeefy Hello! I'm Sean and live in Eugene, Oregon though I did live in Blacksburg, VA for 5 years - I also have a couple of kids - 10 & 8 - keeps life interesting and busy. Nice to "meet" you here -

@seansharp 🙌 I once spent a summer right outside of Eugene, loved it! Excited to get back there one day.

@eli I really like it here a lot in many ways. Where was "near Eugene" for you? It's kind of a middle-of-the-valley spot here and I've only recently begun exploring to the south of us -

@seansharp I was in Cottage Grove, at a place called Aprovecho where I was studying permaculture and sustainable forestry.

@seansharp I’m a Hokie myself. When were you in Blacksburg?

@eli Nice! That's just south of us - a great little town and area, for sure.

@mrbeefy I was there from 2004 to 2009 - an enjoyable 5 years for me. Our son was born there . . .

@seansharp We had a small overlap then. I left in 2005.

@mrbeefy To be fair, we did live in Floyd County, near the small hamlet of Check for 10 months…

@mrbeefy One of the things I loved about that town was the feeling like they rolled up the sidewalks at 8:00 pm. That and Gillies, of course. Such a beautiful little spot on the map.