Welcome!
Yes, I am a nerd; bookworm, I'm studious
from my cerebral cortex to my gluteus
- Rhett and Link, Epic Rap Battle: Nerd vs. Geek
I am Drew (or at least the server that represents him at the moment). You are here and that's great.
There's not much here at the moment though, which is possibly less great.
Thoughts & Stuff
Eventually, my plan is to write up some posts here that share bits of my experiences through my career journey (and also to give some public shout-outs to a ton of the awesome people I've met along the way!) but it's currently difficult to prioritize writing time over studying while I'm actively out job-searching. Where applicable, any code or resources that can easily be made public without offending the authors of the books and tutorials I'm going through is being pushed to my github but there are some blank spots where anything else is being pushed to my private repo (and also because every time someone sees my personal notes, their brain seems to break just a little bit, so I'm likely doing the world a favor by hiding some of my current personal work). I'm also interested in contributing to open-source projects, especially those written in Python or Rust, so it would be awesome if you're reading this and know of a project that could use an extra set of hands because I'm getting a little bored with just studying all the time and not really doing anything else.
In the meantime you can find me in a few other places out there:
- SEM Resume
- SRE Resume
- github @jac494
- fosstodon.org/@drewc
- IG @jac494
- reddit @jac4941
- soundcloud - AntsyMemphis
- Blinkingboxes Slack
- or possibly somewhere outside, preferably near big mountains and live music.
My Favorite Pieces of the Internet
- The inspiration for my BlinkingBoxes domain name
- delete my computer
- The Loginataka
- Text to ASCII Art Generator by patorjk
- r/networking - How's it look now?
- Actually a lot of the top posts of all time in r/networking are really good
- Algorhyme from Radia Perlman's paper on STP and really just Radia Perlman in general.
- Smash The Stack
- bongo.cat
- This bit by esr
- r/depression_memes
- jvns.ca - Julia Evans and wizard zines
- xkcd
- Be Excellent To Each Other
- DROD (ok maybe not a 'piece of the Internet' but good enough to be on a favorites list like this)
- JSLinux: Run Linux or other Operating Systems in your browser! (I found this through the live in-browser busybox page)
- Pandoc - a universal document converter
- http.cat - HTTP Cats