- A thing you understand and cannot name, because you learned it by taking it apart instead of being taught it.
- Any problem with enough moving parts that describing it costs more than pointing at it.
- That specific thing, when both people already know which thing. Hand me that gitgat.
- 👶 One of my first words. I was pointing at something I couldn't name, which turns out to be the whole definition.
- 📟 My handle since an AOL sign-up screen and a dial tone, sometime before 2000.
- 🕰️ Git the software shipped in 2005. I'm not accusing anyone of anything. I'm just noting the order of events.
- 🔧 These days I take gitgats apart until they have a name, a diagram, and a boundary. Then they're not gitgats anymore.
- 👀 Also into keyboards, databases, containers, open standards, flight sims, photography, and EVE Online, which is a spreadsheet with spaceships.
- 🧳 Non-personal work lives at Exploded-views.
- 📫 The long version, and how to reach me: gitgat.com/gitgat