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description: James Vaughan's personal website
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# about me

I grew up in Auburn, California
where I was introduced to many of the things that I'm into today,
including climbing, computers, music, movies, and people.

After high school, I moved to Los Angeles to go learn about computers at UCLA.
I then came up to San Francisco where I spent a few years working on cloud infrastructure at Stripe.

Currently, I'm working at [Arcol](https://arcol.io) where I'm learning more about web technology and graphics, and helping build the future of building design software.

I try to spend my free time slacklining, climbing,
listening to music<span id="song"></span>,
making music, reading, writing,
and watching movies<span id="movie"></span>.

# me on other websites

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- {{< link href="https://letterboxd.com/jamesbvaughan/" rel="me" >}}letterboxd{{< /link >}}
- {{< link href="http://www.last.fm/user/magicjamesv" rel="me" >}}last.fm{{< /link >}}
- {{< link href="https://github.com/jamesbvaughan" rel="me" >}}github{{< /link >}}
- {{< link href="https://linkedin.com/in/jamesbvaughan" rel="me" >}}linkedin{{< /link >}}
- {{< link href="https://www.setlist.fm/concerts/jamesbvaughan" rel="me" >}}setlist.fm{{< /link >}}
- {{< link href="https://www.mountainproject.com/user/112201703/james-vaughan" rel="me" >}}mountain project{{< /link >}}
- {{< link href="https://indieweb.social/@jamesbvaughan" rel="me" >}}mastodon{{< /link >}}

# get in touch

I'm at {{< link href="mailto:james@jamesbvaughan.com" rel="me" >}}james@jamesbvaughan.com{{< /link >}} and love hearing from new people.

Reach out if you'd like to chat about new ideas, work together, or get coffee.

# about this website

This is mostly a place for me to share [things that I write](/blog),
but it's also home to some little projects of mine,
like [this page that lists my favorite albums](/albums) or
[this list of links that I think are cool](/links).

I've written about how I build and manage this site
[here](/how-i-make-this-site).

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