{"id":8,"date":"2018-06-08T21:23:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psstudios.com\/blog\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:35:47","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ppsstudios.com\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Me<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m an Electrical Engineering Technician and Hardware Programmer in Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, I&#8217;m working as a programmer, firmware designer and web developer at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/c-pwr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colorado Power Electronics<\/a>\u00a0in Fort Collins. That and I am pretty set on keeping up on my programming, so on the side, I developed and ran a locally-hosted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pennmush\/pennmush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MUSH<\/a> for 16 years, and currently enjoy maintaining this website with its slough of PHP scripting, running Discord bots and other websocket applications, and dabbling a bit with AI machine learning. Though that last one feels a bit dangerous, so I poke at it in only the lightest way possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from that, I&#8217;ve been volunteering in the A\/V department at my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rez.church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">church<\/a> since 2003 and playing in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovelandconcertband.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Loveland Concert Band<\/a>&nbsp;since 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latest Blog Posts<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ppsstudios.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/ministerios-de-amor-orphanage\/\">Ministerios de Amor Orphanage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ppsstudios.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/first-fruits\/\">First Fruits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ppsstudios.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/live-tv-tuners-plex-and-staying-out-of-the-subscription-nonsense\/\">Live TV Tuners, Twitch, Plex, and screwing over even more Subscription Services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ppsstudios.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/untrodden-snow\/\">Untrodden Snow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ppsstudios.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-look\/\">New Look<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Me I&#8217;m an Electrical Engineering Technician and Hardware Programmer in Colorado. Currently, I&#8217;m working as a programmer, firmware designer and web developer at\u00a0Colorado Power Electronics\u00a0in Fort Collins. 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