i grew up in the upper peninsula of michigan, received a
bachelor's in computer science from northern michigan university,
and now work professionally as a software developer in traverse
city, michigan.
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<p>
i like building software and community through code and sysadmin
tools. my current day job involves writing c# for desktop
applications. my primary hobby project is <ahref="https://tilde.team/">
tilde.team</a>, a non-commercial public access unix system focused
on teaching, learning, and building community.
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<p>
some fun facts about me:
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<ul>
<li>i'm left handed</li>
<li>i love to travel and have lived in ecuador and switzerland</li>
<li>i tend to avoid uppercase letters if i can help it</li>
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<h3>what i've been up to</h3>
<ul>
<li>living in traverse city, mi</li>
<li>working at <ahref="https://www.hagerty.com">hagerty</a> as a software developer</li>
<li>honing my c# skills</li>
<li>thinking of cool ideas for <ahref="https://tilde.team">tilde.team</a></li>
<li><strike>probably</strike> definitely spending too much time on irc??? <ahref="https://tilde.chat/">tilde-irc</a></li>
<li>running stuff for the <ahref="https://tildeverse.org/">tildeverse</a></li>
<li>learning about and using <ahref="https://xmpp.org">xmpp</a> and hosting <ahref="https://hmm.st">some</a><ahref="https://tilde.team/wiki/xmpp">xmpp servers</a>.</li>
<li>doing my best to stay safe and sane during a pandemic</li>
</ul>
<p>updated december 14, 2020</p>
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<sectionid="projects">
<h3>projects</h3>
<p>besides tilde.team, i'm also involved in several other projects, including:</p>
feel free to get in touch via any of the links at the top, or preferably, drop
me a line on irc (if i'm not around, i'll see it soon™). i'm <code>benharri</code>
on <ahref="https://freenode.net/">freenode</a> and <code>ben</code> on
<ahref="https://tilde.chat">tilde.chat</a>
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<p>note that the pubkey linked in the header is for my tilde email: <ahref="mailto:ben@tilde.team">ben@tilde.team</a>, so be sure to use that address if you need to gpg some mail to me.</p>
<p>i'm also on xmpp as <ahref="xmpp:ben@hmm.st">ben@hmm.st</a>. feel free to drop me a line there if irc is too tricky!</p>
<p>if you don't have an xmpp account, you can register one on my <ahref="https://hmm.st">server</a>. there's even a <ahref="https://hmm.st/converse.html">web chat</a>!</p>