Stephen Olesen
aka slepp
Software architect. My hobby is collecting hobbies, and this is the longer version of how that happened.
I've been building things on computers since 1988, when I first got my hands on a VIC-20 and a TI CC-40. Typing in BASIC listings turned into wanting to know why they worked, and 38+ years later that has still not worn off.
In 1994, I founded Geeks Anonymous — a community for the technical and strange — and put my first website online. A decade later, I launched Pastebin.ca, which at its peak was one of Canada's most-visited websites.
In 2009, I helped turn the same community instinct into the Edmonton New Technology Society, Edmonton's original makerspace. Along the way, I picked up a private pilot licence, an amateur radio licence, and far too many other hobbies. I fly Cessnas over Alberta, talk to strangers on HF, build electronics projects, and play approximately 29,000 games of online chess (poorly).
These days I work as a software architect, but the tinkering never stopped. This site is a workshop for all of it.