Hi everyone, I'm Joshua Seigler.
I look like this:
I do web development in Boston. In my free time I like to work on open source projects for the Dash community. I recently made cryptohistory.org which generates price charts for altcoins.
I grew up in Virginia, the oldest of three brothers. We were all homeschooled, which seems to have produced more advantages than disadvantages for me.
I was born at a very early age
When I was a kid my grandfather showed me his home office, which was full of old DOS computers. He told me how he saved his accounting firm some thousands of dollars by writing them a QBASIC form-filling app they could use to print out duplicates of certain forms. He gave me one of these:
and this delightful book: Getting Started on the PC-2
and that was that! I eventually moved to programming my TI-83 calculator, then an engineering friend of mine lovingly built a custom Red Hat Linux PC in an old "portable" computer shell. I was just discovering computer gaming so that quickly became a dual boot Windows 98 box to play games of Need for Speed, Pod Racers, and Descent.
What I do
I ended up getting a degree in math and computer science. Then I got a couple jobs that didn't have anything to do with my degree. 😞 I kept my skills sharp with a tank-fighting programming competition called RoboCode:
There were all these crazy strategies like WaveSurfing and PatternMatching and I was wayyy into it. My best one was a collaboration -- I worked with this guy "Rsim" and we added his shoot-bullets-out-of-the-air code to my modular bot code. The result was called GeomancyBS and it's currently ranked #60 out of 1115 participants in the "RoboRumble".
And then..?
In 2011 I got a job doing web development in New England. I friggen love New England! I live in Boston now. Just this past Monday my wife and I watched the fireworks from the Boston Science Museum parking garage:
Lately I've been getting really involved in the Dash community. I spend a lot of time on the Dash public slack and some of my friends there encouraged me to check out Steemit. Here I am world!