Please welcome Daroc Alden

When, at the beginning of November, we posted an open position at LWN, we were only so
hopeful; experience has shown that finding writers who are both capable of
and interested in writing our sort of material is a challenging task. This
time, though, hope was justified: we got a surprising number of
applications from highly qualified applicants. The hardest part of the
task has, instead, been narrowing down the choice to a hiring decision.

We are pleased to announce that Daroc Alden has just joined LWN's staff.

Daroc is a programmer from New England, where they live with their
spouse and their cat. They graduated with a Master's degree in Computer
Science from the University of New Hampshire. In their spare time, they
enjoy fiction writing and musicals. They are especially interested in
programming language theory and implementation.

Daroc will be taking on some of the load of keeping LWN interesting while
helping us to expand our content mix in the areas that our readers are
interested in. Please give them your support as they come up to speed
within our operation. We are looking forward to having Daroc as part of a
reinforced and more energetic LWN going forward.