We are friends, hello.

I am joshua stein, 29 years old, currently living in Chicago, Illinois with my girlfriend Lauren and dog Carl. I write software and provide various technology-related services under the guise of Superblock, LLC. In a previous life, I worked at a mid-sized ISP in the suburbs of Chicago for 7 years writing lots of software and building lots of internal systems.

This is my personal website that I have been updating since 1999. It has previously lived at the rt.fm and lowerca.se domains.

I can be contacted via e-mail to jcs@jcs.org. If you are contacting me about one of my projects, please visit that project's page first as there may be better ways of getting help or reporting problems.

I am a sustaining member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and you should be, too.

I have a list of things i plan on purchasing if you are feeling generous and wish to preempt my purchase and give me a gift. I thank Dan Weeks and Rune Lynge for getting me gifts.

I can be found on various other websites, though most of the data I publish on them is aggregated here for your and my convenience:

If you are looking for information about one of my old cars, I still have those pages available:

If you are looking for my old OpenBSD on Laptops page, that information is no longer available:

I removed [the OpenBSD on Laptops page] from the site in 2008 because all of the information was outdated, save for my current laptop. Most of the laptop models i wrote about are outdated anyway, but even if you did find and purchase them now, I'd rather you try the latest OpenBSD release or a -current snapshot and see what works and doesn't, rather than rely on something I said about the state of OpenBSD a year ago.

My /laptops/ URLs were temporarily redirecting to the i386-laptop.html page on the openbsd website, but that page was itself removed in February 2009. A few OpenBSD developers agreed that laptops aren't special hardware anymore and should just work without a list of hacks or special Xorg configs. If things don't work, file bugs and work to get them fixed.