This is @shotgun_surgery's Homepage

This is @shotgun_surgery. I'm a Ruby and Rust and C programmer, anarchocapitalist and an advocate for internet decentralization and online privacy.

My goal is to write code that makes bureaucrats feel uneasy.

Some of my interests and what I'm currently learning:

• Cryptography
• Secure Communications
• Decentralized Systems
• Censorship Resistant Systems
• Mixnets
• Federated Protocols (ActivityPub/OStatus, XMPP)

Books I've read

• For a New Liberty - Murray N. Rothbard
• No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority - Lysander Spooner
• Anatomy of the State - Murray N. Rothbard
• The Rust Programming Language - Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols
• Design Patterns in Ruby - Russ Olsen
• Ultralearning - Scott H. Young

What I'm currently reading

• Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach - James Kurose and Keith Ross
• Understanding cryptography: a textbook for students and practitioners - Christof Paar and Jan Pelzl

Books I want to read

• The Second Realm: A Book on Strategy - Smuggler
• The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey - Michael Huemer
• Democracy: The God that Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production - Hans-Hermann Hoppe