About John Ripley

San Francisco. He/Him. US+UK. Somewhat liberal/socialist/snarky.

Software/hardware/chip architecture, generalist from silicon to apps, somewhat InfoSec.
- empeg/Rio/etc MP3 players 1999-2007
- Google 2007-2009
- Apple 2009-2025
- Self 2025-present

Carrying water for “AI”, fashtech, or having an email address ending in ".ai", gets you blocked.

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