Hi! I’m Josh (generally known online as klardotsh¹), a software developer², sailor of boats, music enthusiast, competitive robotics commentator and referee, and dweller and explorer of the Cascadia bioregion. You may know of me from my work on the KMK mechanical keyboard firmware, the in-design Gale programming language, a tongue-in-cheek software license that went fungal³ on Mastodon, or for the robotics nerds in the house, from my commentary work with FIRST Robotics in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

I’m still building out this digital garden (it’s winter, not much grows here yet, but I’m working on it). In the meantime, over on my Mastodon, you’ll find short utterances into the void in the meantime about boats, living on them, tech, shouting at it, programming languages, designing them, and every so often coffee, and how much of it is necessary to survive a PNW winter.

My contact information is linked from the navbar and here.

I’m open to small contract work in the realms of “DevOps” and infrastructure, backend web development, developer experience and tooling, and general systems engineering. See my resume or my contact information if you’re interested!

After you’re done here…

I have assembled a page of recommended reading and watching you can continue on to once you’ve exhausted the content here!

About this site

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