Spencer Pope
Met 2025-12-03 12:00 at InterContinental Shanghai Ruijin, Shanghai.Into DevOps, sysadmin, automation, homelab stuff.
Connecticut native, went to Beijing for a month before graduating college and it gave him the yearning to return. After business major with a tech angle, did some teaching. After nomading, he and his wife moved to Shanghai in early 2024 including doing the paperwork to bring their dog!
We talked tech, social hosting, and the pros and cons of social media.
Shanghai is one of those rare special cities that's really wonderful.
Chinese food is taste-first, often meaning lots of ingredients. Xinjiang food is great and there are many Xinjiang restaurants in Shanghai sometimes full of theatrics like hourly dancing.
His wife is effervescent and everyone who meets her really likes her.
They've been visiting many other cities in China, with an observation that the newer the city, the more coordinated the skyscraper lights.