Seldom without a computer of some sort since graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1978, I have been a full-time Linux user since 2005, a full-time Solaris and SunOS user from 1986 through 2005, and UNIX System V user before that.
On the technical side of things, I have spent a great deal of my career as a consultant, doing data analysis and visualization; especially spatial data analysis. I have a substantial amount of related programming experience, using C, awk, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and lately Groovy. I'm looking at Julia with great interest. I have also built a few desktop and web-based applications, primarily in Java and lately in Grails with lots of JavaScript on the front end and PostgreSQL as my database of choice.
Aside from that, I spend a considerable amount of time writing proposals, technical reports and - of course - stuff on https://www.opensource.com.
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Oh yes, it is a lot of fun. I've built both of the phono ones and as Håvard says, they're hard to build incorrectly. Plus it gave me an excuse to buy a great new digitally-controlled soldering station...
Thanks for the comment, Alan! I've kept some of my early stereo stuff for so long that it's now vintage; like my Polk 7b speakers in the TV room, and my Hafler stuff in my office. My son has my old Ariston RD-11 TT. All of these still sound pretty good.