James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson and Architect

Experience (PDF, Word/DOC) includes substantially improving productivity of software developers, testers, technical writers and editors, system administrators, and end users, via thoughtful analysis of workload, process, and quality controls, followed up with research, proposal, development, implementation, and maintenance of optimizations.

Previous projects include porting and subsequently optimizing a native-code generator for the Verilog language, targeting the SPARCv8 architecture, originally targeting HP-PA RISC; GNU FORTRAN 77, which I wrote and maintained over a period of many years; and design, reverse-engineering, and documentation for a page-layout-software company.

My personal web site.

Geezer tech site for certain ancient technologies.

Email header lines such as "From:", "Reply-To:", and "Return-Path:" can be easily forged by a sender, as can "Received:" in certain cases. Don't trust them!

My (personally patched, so don't blame djb) installation of qmail no longer bounces misaddressed emails. Instead, it either rejects them or deposits them in a special mailbox for me to review when I have time for any truly mis-sent emails, which I would then "bounce" by hand.

Though that makes my life a bit more difficult, I feel it's a more reasonable choice than to continue bouncing lots of spam and vermin to innocent third parties (victims of joe jobs, like myself), and a more secure alternative than to reject all such email during the SMTP conversation (though many people, and MTAs other than vanilla qmail, prefer that approach).

Important: If you're using anti-spam measures such as RBLs listing dynamic IP blocks, you might not hear back from me, as my emails to you might be blocked. Either whitelist me, or tell me how else to reach you — even a specific IP address and/or (SMTP) port number I can use to deliver email to you, which you've set up to receive email without such blocking in place, would do just fine. I do now publish SPF records, though I don't recommend reliance on their use.

My GPG/PGP public key is available.

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These terms are designed mainly to discourage spammers, vermin authors, and their various supporters and enablers.