My name is Ivan Tam and I am a software engineer focused on information architecture, design, and the occasional bit of Web plumbing.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Resumé (PDF)
• LinkedIn
• Github
• Twitter
• About.me

Projects

• asciipr0n.net

  My blog. A cornucopia of thoughts, opinions, musings, allegations, suppositions, and more.

• 1983 Honda Nighthawk CB650SC

  My motorcycle. It's almost as old as I am.

• Other projects

README.txt

• "The Aesthetics of Failure"
• A Proposal for RESTful Location-awareness
• Hands on the G1: First Impressions
• Read more at asciipr0n.net

Bookshelf

• The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

  Marshall Kirk McKusick, et al.

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

  Susanna Clarke

• Metaphors We Live By

  George Lakoff

• Masterminds of Programming

  Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden (eds.)

Interests

• I'm learning about music theory through guitar.
• I've started sailing.
• I'm trying welding.
• I'm an amateur ludologist.

Friends

• Alana Pechon
• Amrit Bath
• Samat Jain
• Nate Agrin

Good Stuff

• Vim
• Slackware Linux
• Ubuntu
• Superjail!