Somehow ended up living the cliché of getting an excellent liberal arts education and going straight into IT... Maybe all I ever wanted was the dream of being an investigative journalist or social researcher, since I can't picture myself giving up my job as a Systems Analyst to do either of those things. Humans are messy, technology is elegant, enough said.

Oh yeah, this is for KDE... Like most unabashed tech-nerds, I dabbled in Linux going back to my secondary school days when it was very much a different animal. Something about the release of Windows 10 and ensuing transition felt like a significant inflection point for the whole tech ecosystem to me, and I used it to catalyze a hard break from dual-boot life (more Windows than Linux, honestly) to all-Linux, all-the-time life. Upon reflection it's been one of the better decisions I've ever made; any stumbling points I encountered were in fact marvelous opportunities to address deficiencies I had in workflow structure or problem resolution.

Though I've long thought that the Red Hat/Fedora branch of the Linux tree has the superior approach to system structure and Arch's insistence on hands-on configuration is most reflective of the world I'd like to inhabit, I confess that the vast majority of my time using Linux has been on a Debian derivative. Since 2016 my distribution of choice has been Kubuntu and it's handled almost everything I've thrown at it quite well. I'd always leaned towards KDE over GNOME since learning the differences, but Plasma 5 got me to buy into KDE wholesale.

So here I am, trying to build some muscles in the development arena after a long time focused solely on the implementation of things that had already been designed. Hopefully I won't embarrass myself too much but please call me out on it when it happens; the only way to get better is to know what you need to work on. Thanks for reading this and for putting up with my shortcomings if we work together, I promise there are some awesome things about me too if you stick around.