"An editing robot, in the purest John Henry steel drivin' man vs. machine sense; owns a steel-plated, dustproof, top secret Pentagon laptop. Never sleeps. Is polite to nuns ... Joab is all of these things." -- Frankenspock.

Joab Jackson is a senior editor for The New Stack, covering cloud native computing and system operations. He has reported on IT infrastructure and development for over 25 years, including stints at IDG and Government Computer News. Before that, he worked for a U.S. Defense Department contractor to explain the benefits of commercializing "Star Wars" missile defense system technology. In 1995, he started writing what would be the first column for a U.S. newspaper about the internet (the Baltimore City Paper). A print media native, Jackson has worked on a series of "underground" news outlets, including Baltimore's original "hippie" newspaper Harry, as well as Spock Science Monitor, which was, back in the day, Burning Man's longest continuously running independent newspaper.

This Web site documents various aspects of Joab Jackson's life, both professionally and personally. He keeps a blog here, a diary to capture shareable moments that he will want -- and need -- to remember later.

This site runs entirely on open source software and open Web standards. Shout-outs go to Apache, MySQL, Perl, Python, PHP, JavaScript and its many awesome libraries, Linux (lately Ubuntu), Notepad Plus, The Gimp, Filezilla, Putty, CSS, HTML and a gaggle of other Web standards from the W3C, as well as an untold number of Unix command line tools. Hosting is provided, for now, from DigitalOcean.