---
title: "About"
date: 2024-03-06T23:04:44-05:00
draft: false
references:
- title: "IBM PS/2 Model P70 | Laptop Pics"
  url: http://laptop.pics/ibm-ps-2-model-p70/
  date: 2024-03-09T18:44:46Z
  file: laptop-pics-u7z4hz.txt
- title: "The 1998 HFStival"
  url: https://hfs98.tripod.com/
  date: 2024-02-21T04:38:29Z
  file: hfs98-tripod-com-jmnzh1.txt
- title: "The 1999 HFStival"
  url: https://hfs99.tripod.com/
  date: 2024-02-21T04:38:54Z
  file: hfs99-tripod-com-v7f3u9.txt
---

I'm a technologist living in Durham, North Carolina, USA with my wife and daughter, plus a dog named Steve and a parrot named Tad.

My parents met at IBM and I grew up around computers (my favorite was the [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). I interned at [webMethods][5] for two summers and saw both sides of the original web bubble. I studied Computer Science in college and have been making stuff for the web professionally ever since.

[1]: http://laptop.pics/ibm-ps-2-model-p70/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)
[3]: https://hfs98.tripod.com/
[4]: https://hfs99.tripod.com/
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebMethods

I work as a developer and manager at [Viget][6], where I've been since 2008. Ruby is my primary language, but I enjoy working across a variety of technologies. I'm super interested in Golang these days.

In my free time, I enjoy running, cycling, woodworking, making [music][7], and creative programming.

[6]: https://www.viget.com/
[7]: /music/

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## Contact

I'm available by email at [hello@davideisinger.com][8]. I'd love to hear from you.

[8]: mailto:hello@davideisinger.com

You can [receive my monthly dispatches via email][9] or [add my RSS feed to your feed reader][10] (I use and recommend [Feedbin][11]).

[9]: https://dispatch.davideisinger.com/subscription/form
[10]: /index.xml
[11]: https://feedbin.com/

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## Colophon

This site is built with [Hugo][12]. I recommend Brian P. Hogan's [_Build Websites with Hugo_][13] if you'd like to set up your own Hugo site from first principles.

It's deployed via [sourcehut builds][14] to a small Digital Ocean server running behind Cloudflare. I use [Caddy][15] in a Docker container to serve the site.

Image dithering is handled via a small webservice I've detailed in [a dedicated post][16].

The links on the homepage are pulled from my [Pinboard bookmarks][17]. I create plaintext backups of pages I link to with [w3m][18].

I manage my [monthly dispatch emails][19] with [Listmonk][20], also running as a container behind a Caddy proxy.

Source code is available on [sourcehut][21].

[12]: https://gohugo.io/
[13]: https://pragprog.com/titles/bhhugo/build-websites-with-hugo/
[14]: https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/
[15]: https://caddyserver.com/
[16]: /journal/encrypt-and-dither-photos-in-hugo/
[17]: https://pinboard.in/u:DCE/public/
[18]: https://w3m.sourceforge.net/
[19]: https://dispatch.davideisinger.com/archive
[20]: https://listmonk.app/
[21]: https://git.sr.ht/~dce/davideisinger.com