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1 --- 2 title: "About" 3 date: 2024-03-06T23:04:44-05:00 4 draft: false 5 references: 6 - title: "IBM PS/2 Model P70 | Laptop Pics" 7 url: http://laptop.pics/ibm-ps-2-model-p70/ 8 date: 2024-03-09T18:44:46Z 9 file: laptop-pics-u7z4hz.txt 10 - title: "The 1998 HFStival" 11 url: https://hfs98.tripod.com/ 12 date: 2024-02-21T04:38:29Z 13 file: hfs98-tripod-com-jmnzh1.txt 14 - title: "The 1999 HFStival" 15 url: https://hfs99.tripod.com/ 16 date: 2024-02-21T04:38:54Z 17 file: hfs99-tripod-com-v7f3u9.txt 18 - title: "Tripod (web hosting) - Wikipedia" 19 url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod_(web_hosting) 20 date: 2026-07-15T14:36:01Z 21 file: en-wikipedia-org-qrmt3s.txt 22 --- 23 24 {{<dither headshot.jpg "400x307" "float-right">}}A smiling man with short, curly hair and black glasses, wearing a navy sweater in a softly lit room.{{</dither>}} 25 26 I live in Durham, North Carolina, USA with my wife and two young children, plus a dog named Steve and a parrot named Tad. 27 28 My parents met at IBM and I grew up around computers (shout out [PS/2 Model P70][1]). We were online pretty early, first with [Prodigy][2] and AOL, then moving onto the web. I started making websites in middle school. A few I made in high school are ~~[still][3] [online][4] as of March 2024~~ (Update July 2026: [🪦 RIP Tripod][5]). I interned at [webMethods][6] for two summers and saw both sides of the original web bubble, then went on to study Computer Science in college. 29 30 [1]: http://laptop.pics/ibm-ps-2-model-p70/ 31 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service) 32 [3]: https://hfs98.tripod.com/ 33 [4]: https://hfs99.tripod.com/ 34 [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod_(web_hosting)#Closure 35 [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebMethods 36 37 I work as a developer and manager at [Viget][7], where I've been since 2008. For many years, Ruby was my primary language, but these days I work across a variety of technologies; a lot of my recent professional work has been in Python, and I tend to use Go for personal stuff. 38 39 When I'm not working or spending time with my family, I enjoy running, cycling, woodworking, making [music][8], 3D printing, and tweaking [Hugo][9] to my exacting standards. 40 41 [7]: https://www.viget.com/ 42 [8]: /music/ 43 [9]: https://gohugo.io/ 44 45 --- 46 47 ## Contact 48 49 I'm available by email at [[email protected]][10]. I'd love to hear from you. 50 51 [10]: mailto:[email protected] 52 53 You can [receive my monthly dispatches via email][11] or [add my RSS feed to your feed reader][12] (I've previously used and still recommend [Feedbin][13]). 54 55 [11]: https://dispatch.davideisinger.com/subscription/form 56 [12]: https://davideisinger.com/index.xml 57 [13]: https://feedbin.com/ 58 59 --- 60 61 ## Colophon 62 63 This site is built with [Hugo][9]. I recommend Brian P. Hogan's [_Build Websites with Hugo_][14] if you'd like to set up your own Hugo site from first principles. 64 65 It's deployed via [SourceHut Builds][15] to a small Digital Ocean server running behind Cloudflare. I use [Caddy][16] in a Docker container to serve the site. 66 67 Image dithering is handled via a small webservice I've detailed in [a dedicated post][17]. 68 69 The links on the homepage are pulled from [Marky][18], a bookmark manager I [vibe coded][19]. I create plaintext backups of pages I link to with [w3m][20]. 70 71 I manage my [monthly dispatch emails][21] with [Listmonk][22], also running as a container behind a Caddy proxy. 72 73 Source code is available on [SourceHut][23] and [git.davideisinger.com][24]. 74 75 This site is also available as a [Gemini capsule][25]. Visit `gemini://gemini.davideisinger.com` in your Gemini client (I like [Amfora][26]). 76 77 [14]: https://pragprog.com/titles/bhhugo/build-websites-with-hugo/ 78 [15]: https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/ 79 [16]: https://caddyserver.com/ 80 [17]: /journal/encrypt-and-dither-photos-in-hugo/ 81 [18]: https://bookmarks.davideisinger.com/u:dce 82 [19]: /journal/dispatch-33-november-2025/#marky 83 [20]: https://w3m.sourceforge.net/ 84 [21]: https://dispatch.davideisinger.com/archive 85 [22]: https://listmonk.app/ 86 [23]: https://git.sr.ht/~dce/davideisinger.com 87 [24]: https://git.davideisinger.com/davideisinger.com/log.html 88 [25]: https://geminiprotocol.net/ 89 [26]: https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora