The Web Page of Jon Stokes

Currently

• Deputy Editor, The Prepared
• Open Source Defense
• Contributing Editor, The Firearm Blog

Formerly

• CTO, Eat
• Coder, Collective Idea
• Founding Editor, AllOutdoor.com
• Advisor, Second Media
• Cloudline Editor, WIRED (Cloudline was a WIRED blog and community about cloud computing. It never got very large.)
• Founder, Ars Technica

Books

• Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture
• TBD, but probably something about firearms

Social

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Medium
• Tumblr

Subset of Recent(ish) Writing

A lot of my work is now up at my Authory page, so check it out there.

Below is a random subset related mostly to guns and gun policy.

• The Futility of a Gun Buyback, Reason
• Beginner's Guide to Batteries, The Prepared
• Confessions of a Progressive Gun Nut, Medium
• Why millions of Americans — including me — own the AR-15, Vox
• A Gun Nut’s Guide to Gun Control That Works, Politico
• Not So Smart Guns, USA Today
• 3D printed guns are now legal… What’s next?, TechCrunch
• Why Obama’s Smart Gun Push Will Misfire, TechCrunch
• Why the NRA hates smart guns, TechCrunch
• Op-Ed: The assault weapons ban didn’t work. A new version won’t, either, LA Times
• How I became a (sane) prepper & joined The Prepared, The Prepared
• Why “Moderate” Pro-Gun Groups like ACRGO Always Fail, AllOutdoor
• The AR-15 Is More Than a Gun. It's a Gadget, WIRED

Education

• 5 years of a PhD program in Christian Origins at University of Chicago
• Th.M., Harvard Divinity School
• M.Div, Harvard Divinity School
• BSEE, minor in mathematics, Louisiana State University
• Louisiana public schools