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Hey there! I'm Josh, a total nerd and compulsory learner. If I had infinite time available, I would learn about everything. I'm passionate about Computers, especially about Linux. I love spending time in the great outdoors, especially hiking and mountain biking. I read fiction, nonfiction and the classics and could always take some good dark chocolate.
I have been totally fascinated with computers all my life. Everything from programming to circuitry amazes me.
I have been totally fascinated with computers all my life. I grew up playing old point-to-click puzzle games, the kind where you put an actual CD into the computer and had a tiny little window to play in. In elementary school I was creating little animations in MS Powerpoint and could run a Minecraft server on localhost. I played out in the trees behind the house, created swords out of old fence pickets and made endless contraptions and gizmos out of duct tape and cardboard. My pockets were always full of random trinkets I found on the street and at school.
My middle school used Macs, so by the end of 8th grade I had used ScriptEditor to create prank apps, had published my first Chrome extension and written a decent website in HTML and CSS. I even tried my first dual-boot of Android x86 that year. I was trying to play My Singing Monsters without a smart phone. (It didn't work.)
The summer before high school I tried Ubuntu 18.04. I liked that Bionic Beaver so much that within a year I was using only Linux. I did an unhealthy amount of distro hopping and landed on POP!_os for a few years. To this day it's one of my favorites. By the end of my freshman year I was pretty decent with Git and the terminal. I was a part of FIRST robotics team 2996 and was even VP of Programming my senior year, where I learned about working on a team and about leadership. I got good with Java, control systems, the problem solving process and much more during my time on the team. I still think it was the most important thing I've been a part of.
During high school I also fell in love with physics and calculus, came to appreciate literature and linguistics and learned critical thinking. I learned how to intelligently disagree with my teachers, and how to admit I was wrong. This is when I first realized that just because I disliked a class, didn't mean I disliked the subject. I got sick of the Google ecosystem and set up a Nextcloud server on an old laptop running Ubuntu server. It was my first LAMP stack. By the end of high school I was using Arch Linux and appreciated the importance of user friendliness in computers.