Instance directory: digipres.club

National library data stuff, computer scientist learning about cultural heritage, open (source|research|data|access), polymathic autodidact, luddite. Constantly trying to draw the rest of the owl 🦉

He/him/his; #ActuallyAutistic

Truthwatcher; brown ajah; neutral good

Allergic to single points of failure. Infodumps likely. Also a fair quantity of cats.

Avatar is a cartoon bird by @davidrevoy
Header is a photo of Enoch's Hammer by @gedankenstuecke

#nobot

Lover of Atari, BBSes and retro tech. I'm the amateur historian behind the "Break Into Chat" wiki and blog. In my professional life, I'm a journalist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Mutinous #librarian, iSchool educator, jack-of-all-trades. She/her. Bergholt Stuttley Johnson designed my notional machine.

Save your 20th-century creations if you value them. If it's not printed, it's likely in danger. #retrocomputing #MediaArchaeology #DigitalForensics #DigitalArchives

Ethicists are scalpels; I am a buster sword. #ethics #DataEthics #privacy #DataPrivacy #infosec #LibraryPrivacy

Former #scholcommer. #ScholarlyCommunication #OpenAccess

#nobot #metafilter #nobridge

Mad Scientist and Necromancer
AuADHD creature of elemental internet
collector of keysmashes

Used to be called Foone, before the war

Runs digipres.club. Software + digipres. Currently, engineering at the Internet Archive. Prev. devtools at Axo, eengineering at Artefactual, etc.

Software preservation | electronics | software dev | ham radio | a maker of things!

Pronouns: https://pronoun.is/he/him

Current projects:
#Datatrak radio navigation
DIY #AnalogCable TV headend
Software preservation (#DigiPres)
Silicon chip photos (#ICRE)

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights
🐾 Furry-adjacent (here for the creativity and community, not the clout)
🤝Passionate about building healthy, inclusive tech and maker communities grounded in positive peace.
💬 Opinions are my own