Dawn from high on Mt. Hood: a climber ascends a snowfield while the mountain casts its own triangular shadow onto the atmosphere.

adam@summit:~$ tail -f /var/log/summit.log

# exact coordinates redacted — ask me over a beer

Adam stands on a granite summit block in a red helmet with a rack of climbing gear on his harness, arms crossed, ridgelines and a deep forested valley behind him.
2020-06-30 13:55 NORTH CASCADES, WA · GRANITE: EXCELLENT

The office, on a good day. Rack stays on — the way down is the way up, reversed.

A blue tent pitched on a rocky bench beneath a glacier, with a lake and forested valley far below at sunrise.
2020-08-15 07:06 CASCADES, WA · ALPINE START: FAILED (slept in)

Camp on the bench below the glacier. The whole valley still asleep under haze; the ice groaning somewhere left of the tent.

A climber scrambles up a rocky ridge step with an ice axe strapped to his pack, a glacier hanging in the basin behind.
2020-08-15 07:41 THE RIDGE · HANDS: NOW REQUIRED

Thirty-five minutes after coffee, the walking stops being walking. The glacier keeps an eye on us from across the basin.

A climber ascending a steep snow couloir in blue pre-sun light, kicked steps trailing below.
2020-08-15 08:53 THE COULOIR · SNOW: BOOT-HARD · CRAMPONS: SINGING

Into the shadow of the couloir before the sun got to it. Kick, step, breathe, repeat.

A climber in a red helmet stands on glacier ice below dark rock towers, studying the crevassed slope ahead.
2020-08-15 09:01 ROPED UP · CREVASSES: PRESENT AND ACCOUNTED FOR

Eight minutes after the last photo. Felt like an hour — the glacier steepens and starts showing its teeth.

Two climbers descending a sun-softened glacier under deep blue sky, crevasse field opening to their right.
2020-08-15 17:04 DESCENT · SNOW: MASHED POTATOES · MORALE: HIGH

Down by evening, stepping around what the sun had opened up since morning.

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Two climbers grin from a small belay ledge hundreds of feet up a desert sandstone wall, the canyon floor far below.
/mnt/desert SANDSTONE · PITCH 4 · EXPOSURE: YES

A few hundred feet of air under the heels. Rope management by committee.

Two climbers in red helmets mug for a summit selfie at sunset, tongues out, desert canyon country glowing pink and gold behind them.
/mnt/desert GOLDEN HOUR · MORALE: UNHINGED

Some summits are serious. This was not one of them.

adam@summit:~$ finger adam

Adam W. Brown in a red climbing helmet and sunglasses on a rocky summit, a huge glaciated volcano rising behind him.
Login: adamIn real life: usually above treeline

I write software for a living and climb mountains to remember why. By day it's engineering; by night it's free and open source software; on the good weekends it's an alpine start and a long walk uphill.

I believe FOSS is an unalloyed good: it fills the niches commercial software won't touch, it puts auditable code between your private life and corporate interests, and it's the springboard every new hacker learns from. I build free applications and permissively-licensed libraries for that ecosystem — and if you believe in it too, I'd love your support.

lrwxrwxrwx  dark-rock-studios  -> darkrockstudios.com
lrwxrwxrwx  darkrock-github    -> github.com/Darkrock-Studios
lrwxrwxrwx  hammer             -> hammer.ink
lrwxrwxrwx  snapsafe           -> snapsafe.org
lrwxrwxrwx  github             -> github.com/Wavesonics
lrwxrwxrwx  patreon            -> patreon.com/c/DarkRockStudios