Kia ora koutou,
I’m Chris(topher) (either will do, but the full one is less ambiguous), software developer among other things in Wairau (Blenheim).
The other things include growing stuff (principally edible or native).
Taking photos of stuff (mostly landscapes or natural history).
I’ve self-published a couple of books of my own poetry and photography, and actually managed to make a small profit on the first one, while my local council bought quite a few of the second.
I paint occasionally, in oils, acrylic, and watercolour, depending on the mood, and time available, and also dabble in alt-photography processes, particularly cyanotype, as it’s fairly non-toxic.
I’m bit of an iNaturalist fanatic when I can get out of the office, and try to make species observations a competitive sport. (I bought a wetsuit and underwater camera just so I could increase my species count).
I also play and own a number of musical instruments with various levels of ability: Violin, piano/synth piano accordion, Irish whistle, banjo, and very occasionally a few guitar chords. I have a late 1980s vintage synth, a Roland D-50.
In the software development area, I mostly mess around with SQL of various dialects, PHP, and C#. For better or worse, I’ve always been self-employed.
I’m agnostic with regard to software licensing. I’ll prefer open source, but will use proprietary software, even on subscription if it’s what will let me get the job done most efficiently. I’m probably more fussy about data being in open formats, as software comes and goes, (even open source projects), but data may need to stick around forever (or at least until the sun enters red giant phase and toasts us all, unless we’ve managed to self-immolate earlier).
With this in mind, I tend to be a bit fussy about semantic use of HTML markup, and appropriate metadata.
I’m definitely not vegan, as I believe possums, deer, rabbits, goats and pigs need predators, and it’s a waste to just kill them, but someone needs to save the native plants.
I don’t like killing things, but since the only thing I can photosynthesise is vitamin D, I accept that death is a fact of life, but even my lettuces are treated humanely. 
If not already apparent, I have an interest in science, (although I never graduated), and apparently I’m ‘on the spectrum’, which means I can have a bit of an ‘out of the box’ way of thinking about things, and maybe a weird sense of humour.
I’ve been invited here, as I mentioned the forum platform this is running on elsewhere, and I like experimenting with software, and once I’ve had enough of a play, can give an honest critique to others who might be considering this as a better alternative for discussions to ‘social’ media.