I'm Robert McGovern (he, him, they), a dabbler in code, occasional tech editor for articles & books, and long long ago a book writer.

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Able to configure & maintain Linux servers; from Arch Linux to Ubuntu. Experience with packages such as Apache HTTPD, Caddy, NGINX, Procmail, Exim, Postfix, SpamAssassin, Rspamd, NextCloud, Gitea, Jekyll, 11ty, Nunjucks and many more.

Once upon a time I was an embedded systems engineer working in C, C++ & Java (with some Ruby on the side), and admin for the company's Linux network. During this time I was tech editor for the book Eclipse in Action (Manning Publishing), before also becoming a writer on the book.

After 5 years I left and became a stay at home parent. In 2007 I got my first Mac, and started to learn Objective-C and Mac programming to keep my hand in.

Then the iPhone came along, and I started to learn iPhone development. Along the way I worked as technical editor and reviewer on a number of Mac and iPhone books.

Throughout this time I self hosted my website & email server amongst other things. I've also provided Linux support for others.

In 2021/2022 I started to learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript programming. At the moment I am mostly focused on completing Frontend Mentor challenges.

I have two iPhone/iPadOS apps in progress. One is a Kaomoji keyboard & sticker generator in SwiftUI. The other for managing Twitter Lists.

I've just started SoundpoolBrowser, a Mac app for managing Soundpool sets from Magix & Producer Planet. Its not intended for sale, highly niche and intended for me to make it easier to pick samples for Garageband / Logic Pro.

I'm updating my old Quiet Unrar Mac project. Well I'm supposed to be :)

I've also begun learning Unity & C#.

I'm all over the place ...

The shields are from Shunsuke Mano & Shields.io