A new player has entered the arena

Hello, Steem.  Larry "Crell" Garfield here.  Word is you're supposed to start with one of these introduction posts, so here I am.  Feels like filling out a dating site profile...

I'm generally fairly negative on Cryptocurrency in general, to be honest.  Most of it smells of pyramid scheme to me, or wishful thinking, but a few blockchain applications do seem to me to have potential value.  Steem is one of them, so here I am.

You can generally blame @lukestokes for my presence here.  (Whether that's to his credit or not we'll find out eventually.)

I'm a long-time software developer, particularly working with PHP on the web and the Drupal CMS.  If you are even tangentially related to the PHP community you've probably seen me presenting at a conference somewhere, or heard of me as "that guy who wouldn't shut up about Drupal and migrating it to OOP code" sometime in the past ten years.  These days I've largely moved on from Drupal but not from tech.

If the above paragraph is just so much mumbo jumbo to you, read it as "professional computer nerd".  Although these days I do mostly tech writing and developer relations, not coding.

My personal blog for the past many years is over at https://www.garfieldtech.com/.  How much I'll continue to post there vs. on Steem, I guess we'll find out together.

As far as what I'll be posting here, I don't know yet.  Some tech stuff, probably.  Some controversial political stuff to keep it at least slightly away from my normal professional channels, probably.  (Chances are I will piss off both the left-wing and the right-wing at some point, maybe at the same time if I do it right.)  Some stuff about my new hobby bladesmithing, maybe.  Beyond that, we'll have to see.

I'm mostly active on Twitter, where I can be found at https://twitter.com/Crell, if for some strange reason you need a Crell fix in between posting here.  (Although why you'd want that I don't know...)

Oh yes, and the obligatory Steem-Selfie:

And if you want to see my first blade creation (because I'm kinda proud of it even if you don't care):

That's hand-forged, hand-polished railroad spike steel with a walnut handle.

(Now let's see how badly I formatted all of that...)