Contact Links
Many of these communication channels are hangovers from my time contributing to free software and open source projects.
Still Active
I check these contact links on a daily basis.
- E2EE E-mail: { trechnex [at] tuta [dot] com } on Tuta
- E2EE Instant Messages: trechnex.02 on Signal
Warning: It's fairly straightforward to spoof e-mail headers, so if you receive an unsolicited message from the trechnex.com domain, that may not necessarily be from me! You should ensure that the e-mail you've received passes DKIM and SPF checks. If it does not, the DMARC policy instructs your email provider to quarantine it as junk/spam.
Legacy Hangovers
I rarely use these contact links, but I still check them periodically.
- Element/Matrix: @TrechNex on tchncs.de
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC): ~trechnex@user/trechnex on Libera.chat
- Telegram: @trechnex
I've published an OpenPGP key for { bob [at] trechnex [dot] com } but I rarely use it, so please allow some time for me to use the command line on my laptop to decrypt your message and produce an encrypted response before sending me any further PGP encrypted messages.
Work-Adjacent
All opinions are my own, and they are not necessarily shared by Oracle Corporation. Please direct any questions about OpenELA to Oracle's official spokespeople.
I also have accounts on the Out In Tech and LGBTQ in Tech Slack servers.
Career Summary
I graduated with a Computer Science degree in , then spent five years working as a software engineer for multinational corporations. I switched gears in , and have since been writing online documentation and interactive tutorials for Oracle Linux and related cloud, virtualization, and enterprise products. My work has also been contributed to OpenELA.
If you recognise my name, it's perhaps from all the Linux Format magazine articles or some of my previous libre software side-projects.
I have also earned recognition for non-Linux things as well. For example, the Royal Television Society named me their Young Technologist of , and my unpaid volunteer work attracted a Diana Award in .
Social Media
Since , I've not had any public-facing microblogging accounts for my IRL identity. I'd like to thank everyone that followed my posts for any duration during the fifteen years in which I used Twitter and its subsequent rivals after the Elon Musk takeover.
...or at least, I thought I'd finally retired from microblogging! It was very peaceful, and I was enjoying it. Sadly the Americans have just elected Trump again, so I think the world could perhaps benefit from another LGBTQ+ person making themselves visible and talking about their life. On I set up a new Bluesky account. My first account would've made me one of the first one million users on that platform, so I do have some familiarity with that website. :)
My apologies to any Mastodon users that are feeling neglected. I did consider setting up an account on the ActivityPub fediverse again, but I hope that you can understand that I'm trying to avoid posting about my Linux-heavy day job, and that dead libre software fork of an image editor that became a multi-year ordeal for me when some extremely online people with strongly held political views became much too "excited" about what I had created.