About
Welcome to the mental health cat site. In the physical world, my name is Jon. In the real world I travel under the usernames j0ni, three53 and mhcat.
I'm working at decoupling myself from the "5 megasites dressed in a trenchcoat" industrial complex, as well as the high speed comms world in general. Thus, you will not find me on the socials, with the exception of occasionally fedi (and backup) and a little bluesky lurking.
You can occasionally find me hanging out on IRC (networks: libera.chat, OFTC, SDF, tilde, nick: mhcat), and there are some leftover droppings on gopher to be found at
- gopher://hole.mhcat.ca (on my desk upstairs)
- gopher://gopher.club/users/mhcat (SDF hosted)
I keep some code at Sourcehut, and commend that site to you. The founder is a principled hacker with exceptionally solid values; I am very happy have jumped onto his train early. I have also started using Codeberg but not much. I've removed pretty much everything I used to have on Github since the LLM incursion began.
I am also a serial immigrant and ADHD victim, with much education and many opinions. I've never finished a project in my life.
I live in Toronto, write code when I'm working and often when I'm not, and play a lot of video games, mostly indie. If you would like to exchange words, know more about me, or hire me, you can email me at hi@mhcat.ca or check out my resume.
I should say that the resume is largely obsolete now, since I more or less excluded myself from tech employment for mostly ideological reasons in 2024. I should therefore be clear that I'm not looking for tech corpo work, and I won't work with LLMs or any other ethically bankrupt technology products. You can pay me peanuts for honest anti-capitalist or pro-justice work though.