John Wq
What I'm up to /now
Last updated 2026-06-24.
Home Life
- Living in Huntsville, AL
- Married for 13 years (and counting)
- Father figure to two Boston terriers, Merry (Meriadoc) and Gimli
Work Life
- Platform Architect for a shmedium employee-owned technology company
- Improving the developer experience so devs can focus on writing code rather than how/where to build it
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Also:
- Plumbing pipelines
- Wrangling containers
- Casting automation spells
- Yeeting YAML
Hobbies
- Riding a bicycle (0 miles (0 km) in the last 30 days)
- Racing my daily driver in autocross events
- Wrenching on a 1974 VW Karmann Ghia
- Fiddling (endlessly) with my Chezmoi-managed dotfiles
- Self-hosting a bunch of (mostly) container workloads in a little homelab
- Exploring Meshtastic, an open-source mesh radio network
- Learning German with Babbel
Now Playing
- Vanishing Culture by Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland, and Juliya Ziskina
- Silo
- RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (Season 11)
- The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales
- No Man's Sky
- Silence
Previously
- Widow's Bay
- Hacks
- Your Friends and Neighbors (Season 2)
- Clarkson's Farm (Season 5)
- Yellowcard, New Found Glory, and Plain White T's (2026-06-08)
- Electric Callboy, Polaris, and Scene Queen (2026-05-19)
- Ghosts (Season 5)
- The AI Con by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
- Hijack (Season 2)
- For All Mankind (Season 5)
