About

I'm James Richardson.

I've spent most of my career working somewhere around the boundary between operating systems, infrastructure, and software development.

I studied physics, started graduate work in high-energy physics, became a VAX cluster administrator along the way, and eventually discovered that I preferred computing to finishing a Ph.D.

These days I design and build infrastructure automation and lifecycle-management systems.

I've been using Unix and Emacs for long enough that I no longer remember learning either of them. I tend to prefer simple systems, plain text, small composable tools, and understanding how things work rather than hiding them behind another layer of abstraction.