beej.us

Beej's contact details and professional documents are all in the About section of his home page at beej.us. You can email him at [email protected], and the same section links to both his Bio and his CV / Resume. The page footer is dated 2025-01-07, so this is the current state of the site.

Where to find each item

How to reach the About section

1. Open beej.us.
2. Scroll to the About heading near the bottom of the page.
3. Use the Bio link for the short version, or CV, Resume for the full professional document.
4. For direct contact, use the email address shown there: [email protected].

Expected result: you land on the bio or CV page, or you have the email address ready to use. There is no contact form or booking system mentioned on the page — email is the listed channel.

Things to keep in mind

• The About section is the only place on the page that carries contact and professional information. The other sections — Stuff to Learn, Places to Visit, Books, and Utilities — are unrelated to reaching him.
• The page does not state response times, availability, or preferred contact topics, so treat the email as a general-purpose address rather than a support channel.
• If you only need his programming material (guides, tech blog), that lives under Stuff to Learn, not About.

Beej's Web Page is the personal homepage of Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall, a programmer best known for his technical guides. It's a non-commercial site that collects his guides and tech blog, a set of digitized public-domain books, some small browser utilities, and personal links. If you're looking for his networking or programming tutorials, this is the hub that links to them.

Who runs it

The site is maintained by Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall, who publishes under the handle "beej." The page includes an About section with a short bio and links to his CV and resume, and a contact address at [email protected]. The footer carries a 2025-01-07 date, so the page is actively kept up.

What's on the site

The homepage is organized into five sections:

The guides are the main draw

Under "Stuff to Learn," Beej's Guides is the part most visitors come for — it's the collection that made the site well known among programmers. The same section links to his tech blog for shorter, more current posts.

The books section

One of Hall's stated hobbies is digitizing and preserving public-domain books. The page lists specific titles he's released, including:

• Across America on a Motor Bicycle — George Wyman's account of being the first person to take a motor vehicle across the US (EPUB)
• Propaganda — Edward Bernays' book (EPUB)
• The Palminomicon — collected Palm Pilot programming lore (PDF)

He also links a list of books he's read and his vocabulary flashcards.

What it isn't

The page shows no pricing signals, payment links, or payment platforms, and it doesn't present itself as a product or service. Treat it as a personal, non-commercial site: content is offered as-is, and there's no indication of paid tiers or accounts.

When to use it

• You want Beej's programming guides or his tech blog — start at "Stuff to Learn."
• You want free, digitized public-domain books in EPUB or PDF — check the Books section.
• You want a quick browser tool (pixel art, Rot13) — the Utilities section has them.
• You're looking for a commercial product, support contract, or pricing — this isn't that kind of site.

Beej (Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall) lists three digitized public-domain books on the Books section of his home page, available as direct downloads in EPUB or PDF format. According to the page, "one of my hobbies is digitizing and preserving public-domain books," so this is a personal preservation project rather than a commercial catalog.

The digitized books

Across America on a Motor Bicycle

George Wyman's first-person account of the first motor-vehicle crossing of the United States. Useful if you're interested in early motorcycle or overland travel history, or in primary-source accounts of early 20th-century American roads.

Propaganda

Edward Bernays's book on mass persuasion and public relations. Beej's page flags it as still relevant, which is a fair description given how often the book is cited in media and communications studies.

The Palminomicon

Not a public-domain literary work in the same sense as the other two — it's a collection of Palm Pilot programming lore compiled as a PDF. It fits the site's broader retro-computing and preservation theme rather than the public-domain book project specifically.

How to get them

1. Go to beej.us and find the Books section on the home page.
2. Click the format link next to the title you want (EPUB for the first two, PDF for The Palminomicon).
3. Open the file in any EPUB reader or PDF viewer.

The page presents these as direct downloads with no described paywall, account, or checkout step. That said, the page itself doesn't state licensing terms for the digitized editions, so if you plan to redistribute rather than just read them, verify the underlying work's public-domain status in your own jurisdiction first.

Related items on the same page

The Books section also links to two personal lists — Books I've read and my vocab flashcards — which are reading logs rather than digitized texts. If your interest is Beej's own writing rather than his preservation work, the Stuff to Learn section (Beej's Guides, My tech blog) is the relevant part of the site.

Beej's Web Page (beej.us) lists three utilities in its "Utilities" section: a Unicode Pixel Art Tool, a Rot13 encryption tool, and Gunfight Unlock. The first two are general-purpose web tools, while Gunfight Unlock is a narrowly targeted helper for an old PalmOS game. All three are presented as things you can use directly from the site rather than as downloads or installable software.

The Three Utilities at a Glance

Unicode Pixel Art Tool

This tool is for creating pixel art where each "pixel" is a Unicode character rather than a colored square. That makes it useful when you want an image to survive as plain text — in a terminal, a text file, a forum post, or any context where you can't attach a real image but can paste characters.

The practical workflow is: choose your characters, lay them out on a grid, and copy the resulting text. Because the output is just text, it stays editable and portable. If you've ever seen ASCII art and wanted something with a wider palette of glyphs, this is the same idea with Unicode's larger character set.

Rot13 Encryption

ROT13 ("rotate by 13") shifts each letter of the alphabet 13 places, so A becomes N, B becomes O, and so on. Applying it twice returns the original text, which makes it self-inverse — no key and no separate decryption step.

It is not real security. ROT13 is a way to hide text from casual reading, not from anyone who actually wants to read it. Typical uses are spoilers, puzzle answers, punchlines, or offensive content you want readers to opt into. If you need actual confidentiality, ROT13 is the wrong tool.

Gunfight Unlock

This one is the odd entry out: it exists to unlock the ancient PalmOS game Gunfight. It's a compatibility fix for a piece of software from the PalmOS era, not a general utility. If you're not running that specific old game, this tool has no use for you. If you are, it's the reason the entry is on the page at all.

How These Fit the Rest of the Site

The Utilities section sits alongside Beej's better-known material — the programming guides and tech blog under "Stuff to Learn," and the public-domain book digitization project under "Books." The utilities are small, single-purpose tools rather than a software suite, so treat each one as a standalone page you visit when you have that specific task. There's no indication on the page of pricing or login requirements, so check each tool's own page before assuming how access works.

Beej's Guides and his tech blog are both linked directly from the "Stuff to Learn" section of the beej.us home page. The home page is a simple link hub, so there is no search box or menu to dig through — you scroll to "Stuff to Learn" and click one of the two links. This applies to the current version of the page as described on the site itself.

The two links you want

The "Stuff to Learn" section lists exactly two destinations:

• Beej's Guides — the collection of programming guides.
• My tech blog — Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall's blog.

Both are plain text links on the home page. There is no separate subdomain or login step mentioned on the page.

What the guides cover

The home page does not enumerate the guide topics; it only labels the collection "Beej's Guides." The one topic the page itself makes explicit is networking, through the site's own framing of the guides as a body of technical writing. If you need to confirm whether a specific topic is covered, open the Guides link and read the index there rather than relying on the home page.

How to navigate there

1. Open beej.us.
2. Find the heading "Stuff to Learn" (it sits near the top, above "Places to Visit").
3. Click Beej's Guides for the programming guides, or My tech blog for the blog.

Expected result: you land on the guides index or the blog, respectively. If you instead land somewhere unrelated, you have likely clicked a link under "Places to Visit," "Books," or "Utilities" — those are separate sections for personal projects, digitized public-domain books, and small tools.

Other sections, so you don't confuse them

Common snags

• Looking for a search function. The page is a static link list; there is no on-site search described. Use your browser's find-in-page for a heading name instead.
• Expecting the blog under "Places to Visit." It is not there — it is under "Stuff to Learn."
• Assuming a topic list on the home page. Only the guides collection is named; individual guide subjects appear after you follow the link.