About
I live in Durham, North Carolina, USA with my wife and two young children, plus a dog named Steve and a parrot named Tad.
My parents met at IBM and I grew up around computers (shout out PS/2 Model P70). We were online pretty early, first with Prodigy and AOL, then moving onto the web. I started making websites in middle school. A few I made in high school are still online as of March 2024 (Update July 2026: ðŠĶ RIP Tripod). I interned at webMethods for two summers and saw both sides of the original web bubble, then went on to study Computer Science in college.
I work as a developer and manager at Viget, where I’ve been since 2008. For many years, Ruby was my primary language, but these days I work across a variety of technologies; a lot of my recent professional work has been in Python, and I tend to use Go for personal stuff.
When I’m not working or spending time with my family, I enjoy running, cycling, woodworking, making music, 3D printing, and tweaking Hugo to my exacting standards.
Contact
I’m available by email at [email protected]. I’d love to hear from you.
You can receive my monthly dispatches via email or add my RSS feed to your feed reader (I’ve previously used and still recommend Feedbin).
Colophon
This site is built with Hugo. I recommend Brian P. Hogan’s Build Websites with Hugo if you’d like to set up your own Hugo site from first principles.
It’s deployed via SourceHut Builds to a small Digital Ocean server running behind Cloudflare. I use Caddy in a Docker container to serve the site.
Image dithering is handled via a small webservice I’ve detailed in a dedicated post.
The links on the homepage are pulled from Marky, a bookmark manager I vibe coded. I create plaintext backups of pages I link to with w3m.
I manage my monthly dispatch emails with Listmonk, also running as a container behind a Caddy proxy.
Source code is available on SourceHut and git.davideisinger.com.
This site is also available as a Gemini capsule. Visit gemini://gemini.davideisinger.com in your Gemini client (I like Amfora).