Greets!

Second generation programmer, been programming something in some way since I could hold my head up way back on the black and green screen IBM Desktops and server terminals. ^.^

I love language design and learning how languages approach problems. I truly believe that the more languages one knows then the better programmer they are as they learn more methods of approaching problems efficiently, quickly, and maintainably. I make it a goal to learn at least 2 languages per year very well and have held that belief for most of my life and I can definitely say that knowledge serves me well when working in any given language.

I’m native to the USA, though barely been out of the local area that I live, however my life has been spent on the Internet and BBS’s before that. ^.^;

I am Dimitar Panayotov – Dimi.

I am 40 years old, been tinkering with computers ever since 12 and loved it ever since. Started working professionally at 21 y/o and moved through Assembly, C, C++, Java, PHP, Javascript, Ruby, Golang, and for ~3.5 years now – Elixir. Also dabbling in Rust and mostly liking it.

Always had an interest in server and network administration, and actually building PCs and servers but sadly never took the time to try my hand harder at these other hobbies. I am beginning to suspect that one day I’ll be the best in these but I’ll be retired and nobody will ever know.

I am usually not deep into compilers or language design. I want computers to be genuinely useful to everyone and I’ve automated menial tasks for friends and family many times. Automation and integration and making stuff work together is what brought me to computers and is still keeping me there.

Living in my motherland Bulgaria my entire life but looking to change that in the next years – I want a beach house with 2x independent 10 Gigabit network links!

Hello Devtalk, hello @AstonJ

I helped Aston manage metaruby.com in what seems likes decades ago.

Short intro:

• I have a PhD in Computer Science, specialized in high-performance computing
  • For this I created a Ruby implementation of CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes) called Emit.
  • I also helped shape the work of Bohrium, a virtual machine for automatic parallelization of NumPy code, as well as created a Ruby front-end for it, which beats the STL by orders of magnitude.
• I am currently a senior software engineer at Elastic.co, where I create connectors for our newly released Workplace Search, written in Ruby.

I want to be more engaged in open source and the open source community, maybe dabble in various low-level languages, such as Rust.

Somehow I need to find out how to get more hours out of the day. I’ve heard good things about bullet journaling, maybe somebody has advice on how to start here?