TARXVF
If you need to pronounce it, that’s “tar-chief” I suppose.
I’m fascinated by radios, aviation, and languages. I like open source.
I spend a lot of time paragliding, working on radios and toy projects, and other hobbies and side projects too numerous to list without being thoroughly embarassing. Some of those occasionally get posted publicly, even incomplete.
I have no shame about putting incomplete projects on the internet, nor talking about plans and then not following through. Most of the fun in a project for me is figuring out how to do it - I do these things for my own edification.
That’s also why I don’t stick to one topic or industry or career subpath; instead I find myself rotating through interests - most recently (mid 2024) I’ve been hard into motorcycles, and I’ll be back around to radios again shortly I’m sure.
While we’re on the subject of becoming unemployable in just one page, I don’t often document projects I do for myself - my memory for such things is excellent and I can usually recall everything about a project within a minute or two of looking at the code again.
That means you won’t see much documentation from me unless you come across old commits or Confluence pages at a place I used to work. I am very good at and happy to be documenting and ticketing and communicating technically when it’s associated with income, but it doesn’t generally give me the warm fuzzies on its own.
I contributed the firmware upgrade code and a few other bits to the old md380tools. I’m responsible for DMR.Tools, a web-based codeplug editor and firmware upgrader for TYT DMR radios using WebUSB. You can find a lot more dmr.tools details elsewhere on this site.
I was heavily involved in the start of M17 across all aspects and split from that group in late 2023 in no small part due to the way my friends at ORI were treated. I’m still very much into radios and writing code for and against them, but I’m much pickier about who I’ll partner with and what I share publicly.
You can reach me through email at literally anything at this domain (example: “support [at] tarxvf [dot] tech”), but if you’re using email services from a large company make sure to check your spam box to get my replies. I run my own mail and I don’t send enough email for the big places to decide if I’m a spammer or not (figure that one out!).