I'm Robert McGovern (he, him, they), a dabbler in code, occasional tech editor for articles & books, and long long ago a book writer.
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Able to configure & maintain Linux servers; from Arch Linux to Ubuntu. Experience with packages such as Apache HTTPD, Caddy, NGINX, Procmail, Exim, Postfix, SpamAssassin, Rspamd, NextCloud, Gitea, Jekyll, 11ty, Nunjucks and many more.
Once upon a time I was an embedded systems engineer working in C, C++ & Java (with some Ruby on the side), and admin for the company's Linux network. During this time I was tech editor for the book Eclipse in Action (Manning Publishing), before also becoming a writer on the book.
After 5 years I left and became a stay at home parent. In 2007 I got my first Mac, and started to learn Objective-C and Mac programming to keep my hand in.
Then the iPhone came along, and I started to learn iPhone development. Along the way I worked as technical editor and reviewer on a number of Mac and iPhone books.
Throughout this time I self hosted my website & email server amongst other things. I've also provided Linux support for others.
In 2021/2022 I started to learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript programming. At the moment I am mostly focused on completing Frontend Mentor challenges.
I have two iPhone/iPadOS apps in progress. One is a Kaomoji keyboard & sticker generator in SwiftUI. The other for managing Twitter Lists.
I've just started SoundpoolBrowser, a Mac app for managing Soundpool sets from Magix & Producer Planet. Its not intended for sale, highly niche and intended for me to make it easier to pick samples for Garageband / Logic Pro.
I'm updating my old Quiet Unrar Mac project. Well I'm supposed to be :)
I've also begun learning Unity & C#.
I'm all over the place ...
It was a D&D character name I made up for a bard thief back in 89/90 when I was 13 or 14. Years later I discovered that it was the original name of the Roman Emperor Zeno, that it was the name of an electric company in the United States of America and the surname of a Greek footballer & manager.
When I can't get tarasis as a username, then I use duemoko.
I love the colour purple, and I often wear a black fedora.
The shields are from Shunsuke Mano & Shields.io