Re: [PLUG] Sad news about Nathan Barwell (Darxus)

[LeRoy Cressy via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Rita and I are so sorry to hear abour Darxus
passing.  I still use gpg from the days we were
meeting on Walnut St.  It was such a joy when
Linux 2.0 came out.  Those were the days my
friends :-)

On Wednesday, December 22, 2021 3:50:13 AM EST
Michael Toren via plug wrote:
> I'm very sorry to write that Nathan Barwell, who
> went by the handle Darxus online, died by
> suicide in December.
>
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>
>
> Nathan grew up in the Philadelphia area, was an
> early Linux enthusiast, and an instrumental
> part of the PLUG community in our early years.
> He managed our mailing lists, scheduled
> speakers, sent out the monthly meeting
> announcements, and updated the website.  He
> created the PLUG history page at
> http://www.phillylinux.org/history.html, and
> was the first person to start keeping track of
> the number of attendees on our meetings page.
> He also served as our host when we were holding
> meetings at IQ Group, where he was working at
> the time, before we outgrew the space and moved
> elsewhere.
>
>
>
>
> Nathan organized our GPG keysignings, which
> became such a staple at our meetings that one
> of the people running the biglumber.com
> keysigning website commented that PLUG was the
> most crypto-aware LUG he knew of.  Nathan loved
> visualizations of all kinds, and created tools
> to plot the web-of-trust we were building out.
> You can view the output of those tools at
> http://www.phillylinux.org/keys/historical.html
> , and see some fun 3D renderings at
> http://www.chaosreigns.com/code/springgraph/3d.
> html.
>
>
>
>
> As part of his visualization work, Nathan wrote
> springgraph — an open-source, drop-in
> replacement for graphviz's "neato" utility to
> draw directed graphs — which produced more
> visually-appealing outputs for the types of
> things he was graphing.  He also added 3D
> support.  His work on springgraph led to him
> being hired at Akamai and moving to Boston
> around 2003, where he worked on data analysis
> and visualizations.  Some of the visualizations
> he created were included in a Wired story about
> the Slammer worm
> (https://www.wired.com/2003/07/slammer/).
>
>
>
>
> When he posted to the PLUG list that he was
> moving to Boston, he wrote
> (http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-> 2002-09/msg00167.html):
>
>
>
> "PLUG has significantly impacted my life.  My
> career would not be where it is.  I got one job
> directly because of PLUG, another influenced by
> my association with it, and this latest one
> probably largely affected by the people I have
> gotten to know through PLUG.  Not to mention
> the number of my close friends that I met
> through PLUG.  Thank you."
>
>
>
> As best as I can recall, I first met Nathan
> through PLUG in 1998, and we fast became
> friends.  I'll miss him terribly.
>
>
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>
> Nathan struggled with depression for years.
> Despite often being discouraged, he persisted
> in seeking wellbeing through exercise
> (especially running), connecting with people
> around him, and more recently through therapy
> and medication.
>
>
> A memorial service will likely take place in
> Boston sometime in January.  If you'd like more
> details about the service when they become
> available, please let me know.
>
>
>
> With love,
>
>
>
>
> -mct


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