Oh hello, 🎺☕️!
I'm a freelance .NET web dev from Melbourne, Australia. I'm also a sometimes-digital-nomad and sometimes-CTO-for-hire. I mostly work with Kentico CMS by accident, but might be about to begin a journey into Industrial IoT. Exciting! Scary!
Stuff I like: web tech, linguistics, slow travel, outdoors/hiking, making music (guitar, fiddle), civic tech, open data, urban planning, sociology, physical crafts (blacksmithing, carpentry), games, reading, podcasts, pun wars.
@nolan Oh nice! My undergrad was computer science. I went back to study postgrad ling, and still read heavily.
I've sometimes wondered if an interest in linguistics is part of an underlying interest in puzzles, patterns and communication... which maybe wouldn't be so surprising in the tech world (?).
@carly_io When I learned how Chomsky's work on CFGs influenced the design of parsers/lexers it was kind of mind-blowing to me. A few years ago I wrote a custom parser/lexer using JISON and found my linguistics BA surprisingly helpful.
OTOH I did computational linguistics in grad school, and honestly linguistics itself does not figure a whole lot in there IMO. It's mostly stats. There's an old joke from someone at Brown I think about how every time they fired a linguist the accuracy improved. 😜
Carly Lyddiard
Nolan Lawson