Hello WIP World!

I'm Jon, an elder statesmen (aka greybeard) of technology. I've been building all sorts of tech things since the Marine Corps taught me to build a computer way back before Y2K. Survived that to go on and build websites using the LAMP stack while considering a career in medicine. Stuck with tech and ended up building networks and datacenters for AOL and other large corporations. Left that world the first time in 2012 to do my own thing where I taught myself Asterisk and built a global VoIP service for startups in Baltimore. Returned to the corporate world in 2017 to build solutions using cloud technologies and eventually became a cog in the wheel at AWS.

Now I'm a FAANG survivor building more things with code.

Continuing to work on ECHOFIVE, a Flutter app I built in private a couple years ago (to learn mobile development). And starting to build new things in public using Golang and HTMX, which I am very interested in learning. Looking to bridge mobile and web for someone with little experience in modern development.

Support and encouragement as I embark on this journey, in public. And help with code things as I will often get stuck and can't simply reboot a router to fix it.

Perspective and positivity. I've failed so many times in so many things theres gotta be some value I can add somewhere. 

Plus backend and infrastructure if needed.

A long spate of life challenges have led me back to the Bible, where I am building my faith with the help of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. 

Also, I was in a movie with Kevin Bacon long ago. So I'm one degree separated, hence my root membership.