# Jan runs OpenBSD My name is Jan. I'm a security consultant who uses OpenBSD at work and at home. I started using [OpenBSD] about six years ago. Before that I was a big Slackware fan (still am). Somewhere in between I also maintained packages for Void Linux. My reasons for using OpenBSD are simple: I want a consistent, not randomly changing, stable OS. I further like that I can fix stuff myself in OpenBSD. I contributed to the [iwm(4)] driver, [httpd(8)] and [kqueue(2)] and probably more that I can't remember. Most of the time I did these because I ran into an issue of some sorts. I worked with reyk@, mikeb@ and jsg@ at [Esdenera Networks], that's where I learned a lot of things about OpenBSD that I carried over to my current employer [CIPHRON]. At home I build my router, firewall, redundant network connection and server with OpenBSD. Most of my time I spend in emacs (or [mg(1)]), mutt and firefox with i3 as a window manager. I don't have a lot of package needs and I generally don't like to install a lot of software. At work we are providing firewalls for our customers and I try to push for a wider use of OpenBSD. Sometimes the lack of software isn't helping, but most of the time the alternatives are great and work the same after a bit of configuration and talking to the customer. I like to build my own tooling, before the recent Wi-Fi changes I wrote my own wifi-manager in Lua. For daemons or tooling where performance is important I like to use Rust, C, and Go. You can find me on [Mastodon](https://x0r.be/@js). _[15 Aug 2018](/raw/people/js.md)_ [CIPHRON]: https://www.ciphron.de/ [Esdenera Networks]: https://www.esdenera.com/ [OpenBSD]: https://www.openbsd.org/ [httpd(8)]: https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8 [iwm(4)]: https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4 [kqueue(2)]: https://man.openbsd.org/kqueue.2 [mg(1)]: https://man.openbsd.org/mg.1