I am Dalton, a programmer focusing on readable and resource efficient code. I code on multiple platforms, but I particularly enjoy working with Linux servers. With the advent of machine learning, the value of efficient, parallelized, and maintainable code is indescribable. The performance and cost benefits from writing efficient code can be like gaining several years worth of hardware advances, just from more efficient code.

I also advocate for access and use of privacy and security related tools. We live in a unique point in history where anyone can use tools that were once considered science fiction. Today, the lowest tier smartphone can use strong cryptography and protect the most precious information better and stronger than the strongest of vaults ever could.

I will not publish my phone number for privacy and security reasons. Phone numbers are not secure, nor are text messages or phone calls private. I have published my email address and my OpenPGP keys. Email is also not secure or private, but OpenPGP will give pretty good privacy for the content of an email message. I prefer to communicate over encrypted channels whenever possible.

Encryption is a wonderful tool. It can and should be used by everyone. Privacy and security are both a team effort. Protecting yourself provides everyone else a form of "herd immunity".

Below is my Session ID if you have the Session app installed.

0598642b0838ea87aa04ca7a584e9515f1131de64e15a043ab71ddfdc9ff26566e

I use two OpenPGP keys, one is based on RSA and the other on Ed25519. I strongly prefer to use the Ed25519 key, but I maintain the second RSA key for communicating with people using older software which cannot use Ed25519 keys.

If you don't know which to use, use whichever one your software will work with first... or the RSA key which is based on older math and is more compatible with obscure OpenPGP software. Programs like GnuPG will work with both key types.

Below are the fingerprints for both keys.

1F32 5206 DE34 CFCF 0022 D045 48A7 3B8C 8920 7930

167E 19AC B8E5 38F3 2FD2 2766 81C9 678A 0987 8230

I will reply using whichever key you sent me the message with.

Both keys are available on this repository, and also on other platforms like Keybase and some Web Key Directory (WKD) servers.