Forty-plus years writing software for other people. Now writing Rust for myself, contributing to FOSS, and shipping things I can explain end to end.

I spent over 4 decades in software engineering, the last ten at Salesforce running SMS delivery for Marketing Cloud. Multi-threaded C# service speaking SMPP to the carriers, eventually lifted onto Hyperforce. Yes, you can blame me for some of those marketing emails.

Before Salesforce was the usual tour: BBSes, DOS, a detour through OS/2, the Windows decades, the Apple years, and eventually the AWS sprawl. Languages were whatever the job needed. Clarion paid the bills for longer than I'd like to admit.

I retired in March 2024 thinking I was done with code. The break held about a year before a weather app that wanted manual longitude and latitude entry dragged me back in. My husband Ben challenged me to learn Rust and do better. The first project was Tempest, a weather applet for COSMIC that doesn't make you type in coordinates. Powercurve followed, a power management daemon with proper fan curves for Linux desktops. I started inside COSMIC and the work has widened out across Linux from there. I publish under VintageTechie.

The blog is where I work through the rest. Linux as a daily driver, why open source still matters, the surveillance machinery getting wired into everyday software, and whatever else won't leave me alone. Some of it is technical. Some of it is just me arguing with the industry I spent four decades inside. Code lives on GitLab.

Based in Indianapolis with Ben, running Arch Linux, and finally writing code for myself instead of shareholders.