Hey there

I’m Justin, a mid-thirties American currently based in San Diego. I spent six years working as a Technical Operations Engineer at Google, first in Taipei and then in London. Before that, I lived in Taiwan independently for a couple of years, working at a local tech company. I moved back to the States in 2024 and have been in a deliberate career reset since then.

I left social media in 2017 and haven’t missed it. The tradeoff is that most people who find my writing don’t have much context for who I am, which is part of why this page exists. I care a lot about who owns what on the internet. The slow consolidation of the web under a handful of large, mostly American, platforms is something I find genuinely alarming, and it’s part of why I built this site rather than posting to someone else’s platform. I’m increasingly drawn to digital rights and technology accountability as areas I want to spend more time thinking and writing about.

This site is a public notebook. I write about things I’ve learned, tools I’ve set up, places I’ve been, and the occasional longer piece when I have something to say. I try to keep it practical and honest. There’s no sponsored content or affiliate links here, just things I actually find useful or interesting.

If something here helps you, I’m glad you found it. And if you want to reach out, my email is always open: jlmc.space@gmail.com

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