Hi there! I’m Ron Lunde.

I retired in May of 2024, and while I still dabble with coding I am mostly writing these days, both blogs like this and fiction. I am currently working on a sequel to a novel I finished last year (but haven’t yet published), and am collaborating with an amazing writer on a screenplay.

I worked doing software engineering for more than 40 years, from when I got a masters degree in 1983 until 2024.

Most recently I worked as a principal software engineer, a software architect, and an engineering manager/director. I love all those jobs. Over the years I oscillated back and forth from technical roles and management roles, since both are fun and challenging.

The main reason I decided to start another blog was that I’m always coming across fascinating things I want to share, but they’re a bit too long for Facebook or Mastodon or Bluesky. I’ve tried Wordpress and Medium, but I find them a bit constraining. Also, I’ve been wanting to try out Hugo (a static site generator), so here we are.

Thanks for reading!

When I’m not coding or writing, I get people together for online meetups. I organize a meetup for writers, a nonfiction book club, and I help organize a virtual board games group, with more than 3,800 people in the combined groups.

I’m horrified by what’s going on in the world right now, politically, and fascinated by how things are changing technologically. I think we’re in the middle of a huge shift in how we work, how we live, and how we think about the world. Over the next few years AI and robotics are about to change everything, and I think we’re going to have to change how we think about work and money and what it means to be human. I’m not sure what that means yet, but I’m trying to figure it out.