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I'm Simon Michael, an experienced software engineer, sysadmin, free software
maintainer, consultant and coach, based in Maui and Ireland.
Joyful Systems is my consulting business.
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[email protected]> | +1-310-795-0167 | HST (UTC-10) \
Mastodon: [@
[email protected]](https://fosstodon.org/@simonmic)\
Matrix chat: @simonmic:matrix.org, display name: sm\
Libera IRC: sm \
Code: [github.com/simonmichael](https://github.com/simonmichael) | [hub.darcs.net/simon](https://hub.darcs.net/simon) | [[FOSS]]
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I'm interested in many things, including FOSS, technologies, usability, communities, and personal/societal/planetary sustainability. In recent years I have been most involved with Plain Text Accounting, the Haskell programming language, and maintaining a large PHP ERP system.
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**2025-01**\
Hello there visitor. If you're a domainer: I'm sorry, joyful.com is not for sale.
Currently I write most often in these places:
FOSS chat rooms on matrix ([PTA](https://matrix.to/#/#plaintextaccounting-space:matrix.org) , [haskell](https://matrix.to/#/#haskell-space:matrix.org) ; also libera IRC);
the [PTA forum](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org) (and [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/simonmic/) and [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=simonmic));
[mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@simonmic);
[hledger.org](https://hledger.org)
and
[plaintextaccounting.org](https://plaintextaccounting.org).
This year I am managing joyful.com with Obsidian Publish, to save time and encourage updates; alas this means you need javascript enabled to view it.
In 2025 you'll see more FAQ/summary/wiki-style notes appearing here, sometimes temporarily until they find a more permanent home.
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