www.TieDyeTechGuy.com

Activities.

In addition to learning Swift and making smart phone apps, I am still busy with a few other things. A number of websites for personal projects and various objectives, including helping charities.

This website (through early 2024 at least) was running on a CMS program written in C under Linux. I had started writing a new CMS in C++, and although complete through the very basics, I had abandoned that and started working on a CMS in Swift. That is now functional, and I have a number of utilities and things I am going to make on my server that work with the CMS.

Due to helping someone with their telecommunications, I have a hobby now of landline telephony - VOIP. And have experience with Raspberry Pi's - nice little computers.

Keywords and whatever.

Current :

Swift
SQL  (MySQL/MariaDB)
HTML
JavaScript
CSS
DOM
AJAX
JWT
Xcode
bluefish editor
gcc, ...
RSS

Linux  (Debian + MATE, Rasberry Pi OS)
MacOS
iOS

SwiftUI
SwiftNIO
MySQLKit
JWTKit

Web browser extensions

Apache web server
Asterisk - free PBX (telephone system)
OpenVPN
Let's Encrypt - free TSL (replaced SSL) certificates! Are you still paying?
Certbot
phpmyadmin

Raspberry Pi

Old, but still using :

C, C++
BASH
basic electronics, analog and digital (multiple courses from and while in High School - extended courses off campus and Junior College night classes)

Old or not using :

Federal Communications Commission First Class Radiotelephone License  (license grade no long exists)(night class at Santa Rosa Junior College while I was in High School still)
Federal Communications Commission Radio Amateur Extra License  (expired, was N1NL, and previously KG6CSH)
Certified Service Technician Apple Computers  (Apple ][e, Mac...) (Saw a Lisa at Apple Headquarters when went there for training. It was not on.)
Certified Service Technician IBM Personal Computers
Certified Service Technician Compaq Computers
Fedora, and original RedHat Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Mandrake/Mandriva, Xandros

Old, and forgotten, unfortunately :

CP/M
CP/M-86
AMOS (Alpha Micro Operating System) - was really, really nice, stable, flexible, powerful, Motorola 68000+
8086 Assembly
Z80 Assembly
OS/2

aligning 5 1/4" and 8" floppy disk drives - learned but never got to use - when was Service Manager at ComputerLand

C++ Builder from Borland - got quite good at it, but never put to use other than a few small things for myself, can't remember how much it cost.
Netscape Navigator. Yes I actually bought that, and am happy I did. Even though it didn't take long for the "free browser" war to start.
Eudora e-mail client. Another thing I paid for early on, and happy with it. Unfortunately moving to another program proved that the data was not really portable.
Redhat Linux. Before the split products, and paid for it, and was happy with Redhat for some time.

Old, ashamed, and forgotten :

various Microsoft MS-DOS versions and Windows versions from Windows 3.11 to Windows NT 4
BASIC (Junior College night classes while in High School)
Kylix, a Linux version of C++ Builder from Borland. Paid $3,000 for it, it never worked, they dropped it.

Learned, never used, and forgotten :

Fortran IV (Junior College)
processor design (Junior College night classes while in High School and on my own a bit of AHPL)


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