Iain K. MacLeod

Hi, my name is Iain K. MacLeod, and I'm an Internet users that started out using a modem to dial into CompuServe and deeply miss Google Reader (Isn't Facebook just propriatary RSS? Why didn't Flickr become Instagram?).

🚽 Fun Fact! Iain (with two "i"s) is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin, while Ian is the Anglicization; both spellings correspond to the English name John. A toilet? No relation.

I was born in Sydney, Cape Breton and now live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada with my blended family. I spent my elementary years in Halifax, junior high in Dartmouth, and then high school in Sydney. I've also spent some time going to university in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island but don't really have a strong connection to the place. I've attended schools such as Chebucto Heights, Mary Lawson, Admiral Westphal, Sheriff, Sydney Academy, U.P.E.I, and U.C.C.B. I've worked briefly in retail (grocery and drug stores) as well as with Celtic Colours, Coast Publishing, the Atlantic Film Festival, Spectacle Group, and the Government of Nova Scotia.

I’ve spent three decades mixing technology, culture, and community by building and dissecting websites, helping people make sense of their tools, and quietly fixing the things that waste everyone’s time. I’m a dad, a recovering collector, and a lifelong fan of [REDACTED], good design, and anything that makes the web feel a little better.

I write for fun and enjoy helping people with their inevitable technical problems because I consider it an essential way to provide emotional support.

Here are some recent posts:

For the most part, you can find out more about me on the following websites:

👨🏻‍💻 This is where I WORK. Hire me?

LinkedIn: professional resume and work history
Sole Proprietor at Boost Ventilator Consulting - Facebook
IMdb
vCard

🔗 These are some online PROFILES

Discogs
Facebook
Gist
Github
Gitlab
Goodreads
Gravatar
Halifax Regional Library
Indiegogo
Itch.io
Keybase (chat)
Kickstarter
Letterboxd
Netlify
Patreon
Pinboard
<a class=”u-url” href=https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/u/boostventilator rel=”me”>Plex</a>
Stackexchange
Stackoverflow
Steam
Tableau
Tilde.club
Trustpilot

📝 This is where I WRITE

📹 These are some PHOTOS

📹 These are some VIDEOS

🔈 These are some AUDIO sounds

🖤 Unpaid Endorsements

Apple: computers, phones, watches, etc.
DuckDuckGo: search without the tracking
Fantastical: a better way to track events, tasks, meetings
Field Notes: quarterly notebooks
Github Pages: web pages
Ikea: home furnishings
HEY: a love letter to newsletters
NetNewsWire: RSS feed reader
Nintendo: video games
Overcast: podcast player
Playdate: handheld gaming system
Safari: web browser
Splitwise: share expenses and balances with friends and family.

💰 Referral Links or Paid Endorsements

Airtable: custom cloud spreadsheet/database
Amazon: shopping
Backblaze: cloud backup
Baron Fig: pens, notebooks, and stationary
Basecamp: cloud project and team management
Borrowell: free Equifax Credit Score & Report
Cotton Bureau: taking pain out of selling merchandise for designers and communities of all kinds.
Digital Ocean: cloud hosting
DoorDash: your favourite restaurants, delivered
Dropbox: Store, Share, Sign & More - Make Work Seamless & Secure
Fans with Benefits: weekly hit of what’s happening between tour stops
Field Agents: making cash trying new products
Groupon: coupons and deals
Google Workspace: Email, collaboration & productivity apps for business
Honey: shopping deals
Hover: domain registration
Instacart: grocery delivery
Layers: Halifax’s best cupcakes
Lime: electric scooters
Notion: all-in-one workplace
Prizeo: give small, win big
Recycled Firefighter: wallets, bags, and packs
Rakuten: cash back
Ritual: take-out ordering app
Simplii Financial: all the perks, none of the fees
Square: electronic payments
Uber: ride sharing
Uber Eats: use code eats-e2fu2
Wealthsimple: get rich slow
Wealthsimple Tax: simplest way to file your taxes
Wealthsimple Trade/Crypto: Canada’s first $0 commission trading app
Woocommerce: eCommerce platform for WordPress
WordPress: content management system
WP Job Manager: job board for WordPress

🤷🏻‍♂️ “It wasn’t me!” aka “Not to be Confused With…”

🚽 Other Noteable Iains

Iain Armitage: actor (Young Sheldon)
Iain Ballamy: British jazz saxophonist and composer
Iain Banks: author (Culture Series)
Iain De Caestecker: actor (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Iain Cook: Scottish musician, composer, and member of the band CHVRCHES
Iain Dowie: Northern Irish football manager and former professional footballer
Iain Glen: actor (Game of Thrones, Silo)
Iain Lee: British broadcaster, writer, and comedian
Iain B. MacDonald: director (Poker Face, Shameless)
Iain Matthews: English musician, known for his work with Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
Iain Morrison: Scottish poet and musician
Iain Rankin: politician (former Premier of Nova Scotia)
Iain Sinclair: British writer and filmmaker known for his works on psychogeography
Iain Stewart: Scottish geologist and television presenter, known for his BBC science programs
Iain Sutherland: Scottish artist known for his work in painting and illustration
Iain Duncan Smith: politician (Britain)
Iain Stirling: comedian & presenter (Love Island)

👯 My Doppelgängers

Kim Bodnia (Killing Eve)
Taylor Hicks (American Idol)
Brian O’Halloran (Clerks)

⚰️ Old, Inactive, or Dead Links

❓ FAQ

So, what is a boost ventilator anyway?
It’s an enclosed system of ducts and mechanical fans used for circulating fresh, recycled or conditioned air at varying degrees of temperature and variable speeds within a motor vehicle.

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