hi! My name is Paul Longtine, and I maintain this site to toss thoughts and things into the void. I have a passion for the interconnected web of mathematics and sciences which support modern information systems. I have interests in programming language theory, distributed systems, embedded systems, instruction set architectures, and Unix-like operating systems.

I am currently employed by Synadia, the company behind NATS.

All opinions are of my own.

...what does 'banna' mean?

banna is derived from my first alias, bannanalord, that I had created when I was a kid. It was inspired (or copied?) from a youtuber named bananapielord who made the let's play series¹ that introduced me to Minecraft.

This turned out to be a good thing: I learned about digital logic and started building logic gates with redstone (an in-game mechanic) and found a community² of players using Minecraft redstone to build computer architectures that could run aribtrary programs. Interacting with computer architectures in a virtualized 3D space nutured a deep appreciation for computing with an enduring urge to chase bugs and wire together systems of sufficent complexity.

links

mail

my first name [at] the domain of this webpage, which should be banna.tech

sourcehut

git.sr.ht/~banna

github

github.com/bannatech