Hello! I’m Mark Powers. This is my website. I started it back in 2018 when I wanted to share my process of learning to bake bread. Now it’s mostly just a general blog, but also where I host a lot of my projects.

Occupation

Software Engineer - DevOps Lead at Chameleon Cloud

Location

Chicago. Previously, Chicago Suburbs, Madison, and West Michigan

Almae Matres

Hope College, UW-Madison

Source Code

gitweb

github

Social

markp@fosstodon

Hobbies

Programming, video games, reading, bicycling, woodworking, chess, cooking, disc golf

Operating System

Regolith Linux — I like how little fuss Ubuntu is, it runs any I want without too much hassle. Regolith is great for people like me, who are also want to try/use i3 in an environment they are comfortable with.

Editor

Vim — I stick mostly to defaults. I like that pretty much on any system, it’ll have this editor that I am used to, and Vim is very powerful with enough practice.

RSS Reader

Miniflux — I like being able to browse feeds anywhere. Previously, I used FreshRSS, but my install broke and I couldn’t fix it. I have over 500 feeds at the moment, and the fetching service of Miniflux works well.

Pets

One very fluffy black cat, one shorthair kitten.

Instruments

Violin - I mostly play old time fiddle music, but in school I played viola.

Banjo - Learning clawhammer fiddle tunes.

Bassoon - Haven’t played in a few years, need to fix some pads on my instrument.