About

I'm Troy Dalmasso.

I was born just ten days before the Unix epoch, that moment that marks the beginning of time for any Unix based system. In a manner of speaking, Unix and I came up together, which maybe explains my affinity.

Computers have been part of the fabric of my life for as long as I remember. I still remember seeing programmable hardware in my father's shirt pocket, digging through punch cards and endless dot-matrix paper, and wandering around the edges of Johnson Space Center imagining what all those machines were doing.

At eleven I wrote a BASIC program that animated a rocket launch in blocky green text. Later came BBSs, a Mac Plus, modem life, the early web, design work, systems work, and eventually a career built around making technical things coherent.

That mix of engineering and creative discipline still defines the work I care about most.