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What I’m doing at this point in my life. Not a bio, not a resume — just the current state of the system.
LAST UPDATED: 2026-07-04 · STATUS: NOMINAL
ian@ianchapin:~$ cat work.txt
I’m a ground control software engineer at True Anomaly, building software that talks to spacecraft.
What kind of spacecraft? [REDACTED]. Doing what? [REDACTED]. How’s it going? Genuinely great, and that’s about all I can say.
ian@ianchapin:~$ cat building.txt
This website, mostly — the ASCII vortex you saw on the way in, the achievements system, the fake boot sequence, and whatever easter egg I think of next. It’s my playground for ideas that would never survive a sprint planning meeting.
ian@ianchapin:~$ cat recently.txt
- Completed S-130/S-190 wildland firefighter training at Colorado Firecamp (wrote about it).
- Writing essays about complex systems, AI, and why nobody understands anything end-to-end anymore — see the blog.
ian@ianchapin:~$ cat contact.txt
Want to talk? Head to the about page and prove you’re human.