Hello, world! I’m Jonathan Hall, a software developer and DevOps advocate originally from the midwest United States, living in the Netherlands since 2015.

I remember the day I wrote my first line of code. I was eight years old, and the night before I had been falling asleep in the bedroom adjacent the living room where my father had his Commodore 64. I kept hearing the computer make strange beeping noises, so I got out of bed and went into the living room to inquire.

“I’m typing in some programs from the computer manual. Go to bed, and tomorrow you can take a look,” was his answer.

So the next day, I began reading through the Commodore 64 User’s Guide, which was more than a User’s Guide, it also contained an introduction to Commodore 64 BASIC.

I had quickly finished all the programming examples, and was hungry for more. Thus began my regular visits to the public library, to borrow every book on BASIC.

Jump ahead a few years, and now I'm now an avid Gopher (Go developer), and DevOps advocate.