My first taste of tech was the almighty Atari 2600 around 1978. A 6507 MOS CPU (hmm, was this before Commodore bought MOS?) and a huge 128 bytes of RAM. I was a huge arcade lover, and even built a full-sized MAME cabinet around 2000 with hundreds of my favorite gamess. I've owned a VIC-20, and still have my Commodore 64 & monitor. I'm learning 6510 assembly these days. Too many consoles to count, including the very questionable 3DO purchase.

I've spent 25 years in the healthcare industry, following a decade in banking. My career has centered on data: starting in QA, testing data propagation jobs. I then moved to a Test Data Management team where I built an ETL-based process from scratch that quadrupled our environment setup speed.

I currently work on a healthcare interoperability team, enabling provider access, patient access, and payer-to-payer data exchanges via the FHIR standard. I've also introduced synthetic data pipelines into lower environments using Synthea, and built Splunk dashboards for our EDI Gateway team.

Each night I set aside time to learn new skills — Java mastery, 6510 assembly on the C64, advanced SQL, cloud computing, AI integrations, and whatever corner of the homelab needs attention next (always something).

I've run some form of home server since 2012, starting with FreeNAS 8.3 on a SuperMicro board that (unbelievably) is still running NAS duties today. The lab has grown massively since.

The Commodore 64 was introduced in 1982 and remains the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. Its MOS 6510 CPU (a variant of the legendary 6502) runs at ~1 MHz and addresses 64KB of RAM. Despite that constraint, it produced remarkable software — and I'm learning why firsthand.

I'm currently dipping my toes into 6510 assembly language — learning to speak directly to the hardware, working through addressing modes, registers, and the peculiarities of the C64's memory map. There's something deeply satisfying about understanding computation at this level.

        * = $C000          ; load at $C000 in RAM

CHROUT  = $FFD2           ; KERNAL print-char routine

START   LDX #$00          ; X = 0 (index into string)
LOOP    LDA MSG,X         ; load next char
        BEQ DONE          ; if zero, we're done
        JSR CHROUT        ; print it via KERNAL
        INX               ; next char
        BNE LOOP          ; loop (X wraps at 256)
DONE    RTS               ; return

MSG     .TEXT "HELLO FROM JASONHALL.NET"
        .BYTE $0D,$00     ; CR + null terminator

Feel free to reach out about healthcare IT, FHIR, homelab setups, C64 assembly, or just to say hello. I am not currently seeking employment, but am always happy to connect with fellow nerds.