Joshua Kronengold (he/him) was born in NYC, raised in NYC, and still lives in NYC (hs moved to Sunnyside with his eventually-to-be wife over a score of years ago).
He has recently left his position of over 20 years, and s open to other possiblities that fit his skillset (mostly programming and game design) and interests (wider). His resume is here Or here in PDF form
Sluggy Freelance -- one among many webcomics I read regularly (some others as of 2025: Tiger Tiger, Spacetrawler, Girl Genius). The Unofficial Girl Genius Codewheel A
coder/decoder for the Girl
Genius Secret Decoder Wheel I wrote, a distinctly
non-cryptologically sound (but fun) polymorphic coding system that's
-this- far away from turing completeness. One of these days I'll
release the code (and the perl module that lies underneath it all:
Crypt::GirlGenius.pm) under the GPL.
Fencing(SCA and Classical; I haven't done this for a decade, mostly, alas) CCGs(Shadowfist (the best CCG ever made),
ONTE (wierd, but good), Science Fiction
and Fantasy (Fandom, Books, even visual Media) Dance(Blues, Ballroom, Historical) Games (LARP, ttRPG, board, video, even) Filking (a folk music of science fiction) PerlA few things that...have drifted a lot over the years. New decade new insights. I'm a lifelong democrat -- particularly of the "do things that work," "reduce harm," and "capitalism mostly works, but we need to stop people accumulating too much power or taking too high consequences for succeeding or failing too hard at it" type.
I'm not all that attached to -how- we accomplish these goals, although democracy is fundamental--if a government doesn't represent the people, it will represent, well, someone else.
As part of thinking democracy is important, I think having an opposition party to whomever is in charge is critical...but I can't say I'm fond of the current current version of the Republican party, which is founded more on conspiracy theories and pursuit of power than anything.
As far as the issues of the day? Gender isn't real but since it determines how people treat one another, people should be able to pick theirs and set a baseline for what's expected of them and how they're treated. Israel exists and while I don't agree with everything (or many things) they do, any solution that ignores the fact that people live there who want to be there is insupportable. And it is not "persecution" when someone who has held the highest office in a country is called to account for, well, crimes.
Dreamwidth -- life stuff, plus occasional poetry and songs Mastodon — mostly talking about ttRPGs, and maybe a bit about programming. Facebook: life updates, mostly Bluesky, where I am most likely to do politics