Welcome to my user page!

I can't promise to limit my edits to only the subjects listed below, but if I made an edit to a page within one of those subject areas, there's a really good chance that I know what I'm talking about (not that my assurance is any substitute for references, but you can easily create well-referenced nonsense if you don't understand the subject).

Areas of Expertise

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Technology

  • Software design patterns
  • Global-scale network architecture
  • Web app/service architecture
  • Globally-distributed petabyte-scale data storage
  • Site reliability and resiliency
  • Web app/service security
  • Basic electrical principles and DC circuit design

Chemistry

  • Mass spectrometry principles
  • Chromatograph & Mass spectrometer designs
  • Mass spectral data analysis

Militaria

  • Antique Japanese sword identification and appraisal
  • Antique Japanese sword preservation

Psychology

  • Critical thinking
  • Personality disorders
  • Attachment styles
  • Human sexuality
  • Gender fluidity

Philosophy

  • Philosophy of religion
  • History of religion
  • History of occultism
  • Gnosticism
  • Hermeticism
  • Neoplatonism
  • Kabbalah
  • Thelema
  • Astral projection
  • Ceremonial magick
  • Enochian (angelic) magick
  • Infernal rites & demonic evocation