§A Non-Exhaustive List of Facts About Me
- Some of my code is stored 250 meters deep inside a mountain in the Arctic, in what is called the Arctic Code Vault(opens in new tab). It’s designed to last at least 1,000 years and sits about a mile from the Global Seed Vault(opens in new tab).
- I’m left-handed.
- A microchip with my name etched on it(opens in new tab) has been roaming Mars since 2012, aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover(opens in new tab).
- I drink ~1.5 liters of mate(opens in new tab) almost daily.
- Code I helped write for normalize.css(opens in new tab) has run in hundreds of millions of browsers worldwide.
- I’m a proud owner of a Casio CA-53W(opens in new tab), my childhood dream watch.
- I discovered HTML in 2003 and built my first website, the same year MySpace(opens in new tab) launched.
- My favorites: The Matrix(opens in new tab) (movie, I know, cliché), Bestiario(opens in new tab) by Julio Cortázar(opens in new tab) (short stories), the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik(opens in new tab), The Secret of Monkey Island(opens in new tab) (computer game), and Carcassonne(opens in new tab) (board game).
- I have over 500 physical books (521 the last time I counted), a healthy mix of novels, graphic novels, comics, short stories and poetry.
- My all-time reading record is 121 books in a single year (2021), though most were comics and graphic novels, which are faster reads.
- I’m a bit of a coffee nerd. I have an espresso machine at home and I’m always dialing in grind size, tweaking pull times, and trying different beans.
- Not everything I write is code. Sometimes I swap the keyboard for my 1960s Olivetti Studio 45(opens in new tab).
- I’ve driven 8 times across the Andes(opens in new tab) through Paso Los Libertadores(opens in new tab), at 3,200m above sea level.
- I haven’t fully shaved my beard in over a decade.
- My website is part of some webrings. Remember those?
See also an incomplete and somewhat accurate compendium of places I’ve been.