Hi, I’m dan [dsp-0029]

I’m a curious exister living in Portland, OR. I’m also a dad and a husband who currently programs computers for a living. My interests over the years have spanned from type theory to cryptography and from distributed consensus to embedded systems.

I’ve tried probably a dozen platforms, approaches, and styles for places for me to exorcize my thoughts, to emanate my vibe, but nothing has ever felt quite right. The purpose of this site is for me to do just that, but to do it untethered from a need to defend or justify any of the connections I find in my head. Think of it as a map—a place to trace any and all of my lines of flight.

If I’ve learned anything through everything I’ve tried, it’s that I’m not really a writer, I’m actually just a blogger. I’ve tried to categorize everything I’ve written by finding the right outlet for each little fracture of myself I’m shining light on with any given piece of writing, trying desperately to keep one identity from reflecting another. But it turns out what I really need to do to be a whole person is to put all the fractures together into a singular mirror, so that’s what you’ll find here. I collected all the writing I’ve done on the Internet over the last 10 years or so (going back to 2014) and dropped them here, incongruences, fleeting interests, and all.

Should you want to contact me you can shoot an email to dan at this domain. I have given a few talks through the years, and you can see my CV here.

About This Site [dsp-0031]

This site uses the static site generator Hakyll and Edward Tufte’s Sidenote CSS by way of Pandoc Sidenote. You can find the source for it here.

It is a forest. Related items are linked to one another rather than adhering to a chronological order; I think that’s the best way to find your way around. You can literally follow my trains of thought.

Below I’ve linked a few favorites to get you started, or you may want to start with the list of tags.