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- About
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- I'm Mark McGuire (aka TronPaul). I'm a software developer who's day job
- currently involves clojure, java, puppet, and other languages from time
- to time. In my spare time I work on my own projects, play videogames on
- my PC, read science fiction and fantasy, and listen to music.
- Personal Projects
- =================
- unpro-salt_
- Configuration management for my servers both physical and cloud based.
- It's written with salt_ which is run in masterless mode. Also contains
- the Cloudformation template for my servers in AWS.
- .. _unpro-salt: https://github.com/TronPaul/unpro-salt/
- .. _salt: http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/
- Favorite Games
- ==============
- Team Fortress 2
- My number one FPS. I play this competitively in UGC_'s Highlander
- league. I've played in the Steel, Silver, and Gold division as Scout
- and Sniper and I hope to play in Platinum some day.
- .. _UGC: http://www.ugcleague.com
- Counter Strike: Global Offensive
- The FPS I wish I was good at. I call this game the "thinking man's
- shooter". DM (deathmatch skill) will only get you so far. You need
- to know when to play aggressively and passively, grenade locations,
- rotations and many other things. The pace of matches is very tight
- and a close game is very easy to be caught up in.
- Favorite Books
- ==============
- Cryptonomicon [Neal Stephenson]
- Stephenson's writing style is my favorite to read. It was confusing
- at first, but I feel that he captures the thought patterns of his
- characters well. The three threads of the story come together in an
- almost crack-fic like manner.
- Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained [Peter F Hamilton]
- The number of characters is daunting, but the way the story comes
- together in the end is wonderful. The world Hamilton envisions in
- this series contains very interesting takes on a distant future
- including immortality, criminal sentences, and other things that
- flesh out his universe.