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title: "About"
date: 2024-03-06T23:04:44-05:00
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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.

I work as a developer and manager at [Viget][1], where I've been building things for the web since 2008. Ruby is my primary language, but I enjoy working across a variety of technologies.

In my free time, I enjoy running, cycling, woodworking, making [music][2], and creative programming.

[1]: https://www.viget.com/
[2]: /music/

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## Contact

I'm available by email at [hello@davideisinger.com][3]. I'd love to hear from you.

[3]: mailto:hello@davideisinger.com

You can [receive my monthly dispatches via email][4] or [add my RSS feed to your feed reader][5] (I use and recommend [Feedbin][6]).

[4]: https://dispatch.davideisinger.com/subscription/form
[5]: /index.xml
[6]: https://feedbin.com/

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## Colophon

This site is built with [Hugo][7]. I recommend Brian P. Hogan's [_Build Websites with Hugo_][8] if you'd like to set up your own Hugo site from first principles.

It's deployed via GitHub Actions to a small Digital Ocean server running behind Cloudflare. I use [Caddy][9] in a Docker container to serve the site.

Image dithering is handled via a small webservice I've detailed in [a dedicated post][10].

The links on the homepage are pulled from my [Pinboard bookmarks][11]. I create plaintext backups of pages I link to with [w3m][12].

I manage my [monthly dispatch emails][13] with [Listmonk][14], also running as a container behind a Caddy proxy.

Source code is available on [GitHub][15].

[7]: https://gohugo.io/
[8]: https://pragprog.com/titles/bhhugo/build-websites-with-hugo/
[9]: https://caddyserver.com/
[10]: /journal/encrypt-and-dither-photos-in-hugo/
[11]: https://pinboard.in/u:DCE/public/
[12]: https://w3m.sourceforge.net/
[13]: https://dispatch.davideisinger.com/archive
[14]: https://listmonk.app/
[15]: https://github.com/dce/davideisinger.com/