About

Introduction

Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. I’m a developer that cut his teeth supporting other developers in a vareity of environments.

I grew up here in the Puget Sound and currently reside here with my wife and soon to be daughter. We have two cats. I earned my bachelor’s degree from Western Governor’s University in 2018.

In the past I’ve been known to host a podcast, and run three side businesses to keep my mind fresh. In 2022 I shut down Seaplane Coffee. In 2024 I shut down Cascade Handcrafts (candles). In 2025 I sold Seller Journal. My holding company still exists as I try to figure out what I want to do with my latest project: Brewery Search (working title).

This is year TEN (2016-2026) of working 100% remote and I’ve been able to use that time to really hone my craft. In 2021 I wrote down some thoughts on working remotely. Looking back on it, it feels both on the nose and wildly wrong.

Colophon

Johnathan.org is operated, maintained, and written by myself, Johnathan Lyman. I’ve maintained this blog to varying degrees since 2014 and have been on the web in about two dozen different formats since 2001-ish. Johnathan.org is my personal blog, first and foremost, where I write about topics that interest me. In particular, technology, some current events, videos, and other bits I discover are what you’re most likely to see here.

Since 2014, I’ve created almost over 400 posts. About 350 of them (as of mid-September 2018) have made it through the various transitions this site has seen, though through some culling of content, the current count is in the mid-100s. A few of them were so highly irrelevant or didn’t make sense. In hindsight, keeping them around seemed like the right thing to do, but I’ve opted to move forward. RIP.

Hosting, Toolchain

This site is the untold-numbered generation of itself. This current form is built using a more JavaScript-heavy tech stack than I'm used to (perhaps a blog post on that, later). The frontend is powered by Astro, and the backend is powered by Payload.

Both sides are currently hosted on Heroku.

Advertising

I don't currently have any advertising. I don't get enough traffic for that to matter. Someday?

Contact

You can get a hold of me via one of my several social media handles:

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...or email me: email at johnathan dot org.

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