About Me
Jimmy Hartzell#
Programmer, writer, opinionator
- Name: Jimmy Hartzell
- Dogs or Cats: Cats
- Hair Style: Bald + Beard
- Nationality: United States
- Location: Pennsylvania (Philadelphia area)
- Preferred Programming Languages: Rust, Haskell, C++, C
- Resume: HTML, PDF
- GitHub: jhartzell42
- Biography: Programmer, Personal
- Favorite Beer Style: Hefeweizen
- Usable Languages: English, German
- Languages I’ve Dabbled In: Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Greek, Ecclesiastical Latin…
Professional Skills#
Programming Languages#
- Rust
- Haskell
- C++
- C
- Python
- Swift
- Objective-C
- Bash
Soft Skills (in a software development context)#
- Teaching: Lecturing and Explaining Technical Concepts
- Mentoring
- Requirements Gathering
- Planning and Prioritizing Large Amounts of Work
- Dealing with Clients
Hobbies#
- Writing/Blogging (hi!)
- About programming and other topics
- Even fiction sometimes!
- This is my biggest and most “productive” hobby
- Friends
- Talking for hours and hours and hours on the phone with friends
- Travelling with friends
- Travelling to meet up with friends
- Going out with friends
- Going out to make friends
- Throwing parties to invite friends
- Board games with friends (I want more of this!)
- Nerding out about/learning more about:
- Linguistics
- History
- Religious studies, especially the Hebrew Bible
- Germanic languages
- Economics
- Other nerdery (see the topics of this blog for details)
- Exercising (this should be bigger and higher up, but honestly it just isn’t):
- Cycling
- Rock climbing (relatively new, I’m still quite bad!)
- Weight Training (lifting weights up and then putting them back down)
- Keeping an overly meticulous TODO list
- Writing everthing I need to do on the list
- Making sure I maintain the list well
- Make sure I plan each day
- Fail to do many of the things I planned
- Especially errands and chores (they’re the worst)
- Many days: Write down the few things I did succeed at doing
- Music
- Planning to get less rusty on piano
- Seeing if I might get less rusty at singing
- Considering getting less rusty on trombone
- Annoying my friends playing recorder
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