geek

I am a computer geek (geekcode), but I also enjoy making music, writing, and composing images.

The operating system I use to make stuff is Mac OS X. The major attractive of this platform is its Cocoa programming framework (of NeXTSTEP descendance (1986!)). Some of the original NeXTSTEP features are described here. Cocoa/NeXTSTEP/OpenStep is a beautiful and elegant piece of software.

The biggest drawback of OS X is the fact that it is not free software. I believe it could be free and Apple still make a lot of money. Even if the software built upon Cocoa is based on a non-free framework, GNUstep is a free implementation of the OpenStep specification. This prevents me from knowingly building something that will be trapped in a non-free system. Eventually I will join GNUstep and support their efforts.

My social skills are not very well developed though my wife is working on it. I have fun sitting in front of my computer programming for the entire day. Sometimes I forget to eat. I still have a page about my first Mac, and a very old weblog.