I do not use my real name here for privacy reasons — <br> and because I like <spanclass="italic">carya.software</span> a lot more than <spanclass="italic">first-last.tld</span>.
If you got here from my resume you may want to look at the projects tab or head to my <aclass="underline"href="https://forge.carya.software/explore/repos">Forgejo instance</a> (a lightweight FOSS git software forge) directly.
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If you need to contact me you can find my various account addresses in the contact tab. I would be happy to chat once I know you aren't a web scraper!
I am a software engineer based on the East Coast of the USA. Professionally I have mostly worked with microsoft technology (.NET, SQL Server, et al) but for personal use I prefer <aclass="underline text-[#4e2a8e]"href="https://elixir-lang.org/">Elixir</a>.
Outside of spending time with family and community I garden, work on personal projects, read, and attempt to catalogue the various fungi I find growing in my yard.
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<h2class="font-semibold text-[#0a210f] p-2">What does "carya" mean?</h2>
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It is the genus name for <aclass="underline"href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory">Hickory trees</a>, which I am fond of.
<aclass="underline font-semibold"href="https://forge.carya.software/Public/carya.software">Carya.software</a> — the source code for this site.
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<li>Built using basic HTML, TailwindCSS, and vanilla JavaScript. Hosted on a VPS with Nginx running on Debian.</li>
<li>I have additional services running on subdomains on the same server. For example, I host my public repositories at forge.carya.software, and I have a pleroma instance on pleroma.carya.software</li>