About John

I spent over 4 decades in software engineering, the last decade at Salesforce writing code that had to scale to absurd numbers. Yes, you can blame me for some of those marketing emails.

Before Salesforce was the usual tour: BBSes, DOS, a detour through OS/2, the Windows decades, the Apple years, and eventually the AWS sprawl. Languages were whatever the job needed. Clarion paid the bills for longer than I'd like to admit.

I retired in March 2024 thinking I was done with code. Lasted about a year before a weather app that required manual longitude and latitude entry dragged me back in. My husband Ben pointed me toward Rust, and now I write applets for the COSMIC desktop, publishing them as VintageTechie.

I blog about Linux, open source, and whatever else catches my attention. Code lives on GitLab.

Based in Indianapolis with Ben, running Arch Linux, and finally writing code for myself instead of shareholders.