Hi, I'm Geoffrey Jost, and this is my home on the web, my outpost in cyberspace as it were.
I spend most work days making web sites using Django, a web framework written in Python. I'm interested in the creative commons and anything free/libre/open-source. I'm also interested in whole systems and long-term thinking.
When I'm not programming I can often be found listening to strange music and/or reading whatever is interesting to me at the moment
From the playlist: Yellow Magic Orchestra, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Radiohead, Stereolab, Laika, Steve Reich, John Coltrane, Sergei Rachmaninov, Tim Hecker, Autechre, monolake, Spiritual Vibes, jhno, U2, Cabaret Voltaire, Herbie Hancock, DJ Shadow, Daedelus, Southern All Stars, Philip Jeck, Zoe Keating, and the Mysterious Joy People
From the bookshelf: Anathem, Pattern Recognition, Cryptonomicon, Learning Perl (5th ed), The Politics of Jesus, The Art of Unix Programming, Accelerando, Mastering Regular Expressions, Land of Lisp, Little Brother, The Whole Earth Catalog
About this blog
Every Django developer seems to have written
their own blogging software,
and this site is no exception.
I'll be the first to admit that the design looks pretty 1998 but it has a certain funky retro appeal to me.
I imagine that fixed-gear bicyle enthusiasts would understand this if they thought about it a bit.
But don't worry, under the hood there's a lot of high-tech stuff like
Nginx,
Memcached,
Supervisord,
Fabric,
and other goodies,
all running on
Linux,
which I wholeheartedly recommend to one and all.