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About me

Juan M. Méndez Rey

$ whoami juan m. méndez rey — Debian packager · software archaeologist
$ ls rescued/ xwpe conquer its ultrix plan9
$ systemctl status dh-scala active (running)
$ echo $NEXT scala 2.11 → 2.13 → 3, looking for sponsors
using Linux since
1994
using Debian since
1998
blog posts
400
writing since
2008

Debian

Packages in the archive

Go, Rust, C/C++, JavaScript and Dart: from dart-sdk and siso to testdisk and node-lit, plus the Rust bindings for WebKit and libmpv.

Tooling

dh-scala

A debhelper sequence for Scala packaging in the spirit of dh-go, with the archive migration from 2.11 to 2.13 and 3 under way.

Collaboration

Chromium and CEF

Rust and Go dependency chains for the Debian Chromium team with Andrés Salomon, cross-architecture build fixes, and the chromium-embedded-framework branch maintained.

Archaeology

CONQUER, playable

The 1987 wargame with its original code, running in the browser through ttyd, with games I organise myself.

Maintenance

XWPE, a 1993 editor

Maintainer of the programming editor I used in the nineties: rescued it, ported it to UTF-8 and put it back in the archive.

All projects, with their status and links →

Timeline

  1. 2008 The blog starts, in Spanish and by hand.
  2. 2017 Himalaya: Namche Bazaar to Gorak Shep, camera in hand.
  3. 2025 First Debian packages and the chromium-embedded-framework branch.
  4. 2026 Stremio enters the archive; MiniDebConf Winterthur, first Debian in person.
  5. 2026 XWPE maintained and CONQUER playable online.

Where to find me