Giles Paterson [email protected]

Software developer at @talis, amateur photographer, lego photographer, father of two boys and husband to the long suffering @pollyl

Exec. VP of (trainer, and software developer for) App vNext. Host of two YT shows (BlazorTrain and The .NET Show). Co-host/creator of .NET Rocks! podcast (since 2002!) and Security This Week podcast (since 2021). Microsoft MVP for Dev Technology. Microsoft Regional Director alumni. Co-host/creator of 2 Keto Dudes podcast. Producer and participant in Faith Middleton's All-New Food Schmooze podcast. Steely Dan Tribute Band founder (https://franklinbrothersband.com).

Doing fun things with code + video. Co-founded 5-Second Films, helped build Vidme, worked on Video Game High School. ADHD. Rational optimist. #FCBayern fan. Fueled by #trance music.

Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2006. And they'll have to prise my 2012 Nobel Peace Prize out of my cold, dead hands.

Programming languages aficionado, occasional runner, quantified-self enthusiast, and fervent napper. Works as senior software engineer at Google.

#DoctorWho, chief #subeditor, scruffy looking word herder, shortarse, Northern. Morgenmuffel. La tristesse durera toujours.

Recording artist & broadcaster at #BBC6Music. Offering free insider advice at Fresh On The Net with an open door for music submissions every Mon. My own views, not those of the BBC

just some guy, you know?

Trying to break things that need breaking, deliberately and after much reflection, make things in a likewise manner, and generally reshape the various worlds I inhabit to be slightly more habitable.

I'm into music, retrocomputing, people, caring, and thinking about stuff.

I dislike capitalism, cryptocurrency, terfs, nazis, fascists, racists, & edgelords.

Been around a while.

Accidental maintainer of brutaldon.

Feel free to ask questions. I will not always answer.

BrianLinuxing on Instagram too

• I am a freelance IT Manager. Serious about improving your tech? Then talk to me!

• 40+ years of IT experience

• Founder of Linuxing In London, Britain's largest free educational & inclusive Linux group

• I am a Wikipedian

• Linux desktop specialist 🐧

• I give talks and run classes on Linux/tech

• I’ve done a lot with Mainframes, and I speak OpenVMS

https://linuxinginlondon.wordpress.com/

NB: I tend only to reply to my followers or the very polite.