About Me

Steven Harms in St. Peter’s Square, Rome

Hello, welcome to my site.

I’ve been writing on the internet since 1992 but started this site in 2003. Back then, in the era of personal sites, it was common to mix all sorts of content. As a result, this site has posts about all sorts of things:

The places I lived: San Jose, San Francisco, Austin, and New York
The tech I loved: emacs, vim, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, Python
The circumstances of a life: births, deaths, comings and goings
The stuff I saw, read, or listened to
The places I traveled
The jobs I had

Post volume became inconsistent in the period when I got seduced by microblogging (Twitter) and The Blue Site (Facebook). When I was thoroughly glutted with their unique feasts of emptiness, I returned to blogging.

As of this latest revision, I live in Manhattan with my family. I’m presently happily employed at Bloomberg LP. My opinions expressed here are not to be taken as endorsement by any of my employers but are my own.

These days, with time precious between work and family, my output has reduced, but I hope that the extra thought before digital pen hits page makes for more thoughtful posts.

Streams

If you want to stay up on my latest, I suggest you subscribe to my site using the RSS feed.

If the word “RSS” scares you, consider my newsletter. My curated updates will then find you.

For small micro-updates, you might consider following me on Mastodon. Posts there tend to be about retro-computing or technology or science.

I have no relationship any more with any Meta property or Twitter/“X”. I’ll never hand my data over to anyone again.

In the end though, this site has always been about life, philosophy, mystery, books, and music.