Profiles

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Profiles
nearly as many internet accounts as this beige beauty has for pci slots

Internet presence accounts exist in various modalities of expression, and for full transparency on an opinionated topic, I miss the internet of the '90s. While not exactly missing my 14.4k baud modem, it's the expression of the original idealism which prioritized being kind, helpful, welcoming, and infinitely curious about all things technical and complex and challenging.

Nevertheless, we're no longer in that era, and so here are my modern life accounts from a variety of networks. Often one may find my username existing as "winterschon", though my active presence wavers and wanes along with my internal cycle - those periods of long silence, staccato quipped sarcasm and critique, and the inevitable return to torrential expressions. Fun!

Generally speaking, if you don't see a profile listed here, then it's probably not an official account of my own (specifically Twitter/X). If in doubt, please do contact me*.

Social Networks

Asynchronous Comms

Codes and Repos

Dots of Consequence

Most engineers who come from a UNIX background, and maybe the newer generations who did not grow up using literal UNIXยฎ [2], tend to travel their years with at least one personal repo for their range of 'dot files' - configurations for text editors, terminals, terminal emulators, shell configs, and so forth. Maybe that repo started out using UNIX's SCCS, or the 90s winrar CVS, perhaps RCS, then SVN or Mercurial or Fossil, a big-check jaunt with Perforce, forced to use Git (it's not great! quick, back to Perforce P4)!

Well you get the point, there are many ways to deal with challenges wrought by engineering's evolving needs for multiple concurrent and distributed instances of source code control managment. I've used all of the ones listed plus a handful of others, and while Git is less headache than CVS and SVN, it's from the mind of a self-proclaimed dictator for life, and I don't want to use it - but the industry demands ecosystem compatibility. So, the usual bitching aside, here's my current dot-files repo.

dot-files
dot-files
Codeberg.orgwinterschon

a lifetime of many configs from a unix-centric existence

Technical Domains

Contacting for Awareness

  • [*] If so, please message me via a valid profile from this page and let me know - as there exist impostors who've stolen my personal photos, professional likeness, and should be dealt with accordingly.
  • [2] "The UNIXยฎ trademark is owned by The Open Group, an industry standards consortium, which acquired it from Novell in 1993. It is used to certify that operating systems comply with the Single UNIX Specification {"SUS, that is suss.."}. The brand separates the trademark from any single company's code, allowing multiple, independent implementations to be certified."
  • [3] Blumenkrieg translates to "Flower War", and is mostly an inside joke about the near-immediate capitulation of Austria during the inevitable rearmament of the Kaiser's German Empire as it evolved into the "Thousand Year Reich" which lasted about six. What kind of Jew isn't capable of laughing at the ease by which the world looked on as my lineage and so many others' were whole-sale slaughtered and exterminated at Mauthausen, condeming the part of my ancestral lineage to a brutal and inescapably horrific death - who had re-located at the time in Passau after escaping from Belarus pogroms.They all died, except for the very few who strived forward and managed to escape through the frosted-frozen Alps during storms of mourning and endless searching.