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Dave McKay first used computers in industry when punched paper tape was in vogue and he has been programming ever since. His use of computers pre-dates the birth of the PC and the public release of Unix. He has programmed in everything from 6502 assembly to Lisp, and from Forth to C#.
After over 30 years in the IT industry, he is now a full-time technology journalist. During his career, he has worked as a freelance programmer, manager of an international software development team, an IT services project manager, and, most recently, as a Data Protection Officer.
His writing has been published by howtogeek.com, cloudsavvyit.com, itenterpriser.com, and opensource.com.
Dave is a Linux evangelist, an open source advocate, and an inveterate tinkerer. He used Ubuntu as his only operating system for over a decade but eventually hopped distro to Manjaro, and from there to EndeavourOS. He won't be hopping back.
Dave doesn't know how many Raspberry Pi's are in his house.
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