Hi there. I'm Marcus Bointon.

When I'm not skiing, I'm writing & pentesting for Radically Open Security, working on smartmessages.net (the privacy-first email marketing service), and supporting 1CRM. I'm the maintainer of PHPMailer, probably the world's most popular email sending code. I've also answered over a thousand questions about PHPMailer on Stack Overflow. I'm a contributor to many other open-source projects, and I wrote the HTML5 email address specification. I'm a co-developer of chamsocial.com a local private social network in Chamonix, France. I'm an accomplished PHP & Laravel developer, Linux sysadmin, technical writer/editor, and MySQL DBA. I'm a strong advocate of digital rights and privacy – I love GDPR! I've been speaking and running workshops at technical conferences around the world since 2006, mainly on security, privacy, and email. I live in the French 🇫🇷 alps 🏔 with my wife 👩🏻, kids 👦🏼👧🏻, cat 🐱, guitars 🎸, bikes 🚵, and far too many skis 🎿.

If my code or answers have helped you, please sponsor me on GitHub, Patreon, or get your company to sponsor Open Source on TideLift.

Buy my book "The HTTP/3 book"! I'm currently writing a bigger book on HTTP/3 and QUIC for APress.

I write songs about web development (yes, really!), like about Laravel, Tailwind, Blue Teams, Pair Programming, meeting nice people at conferences, and other things, which you can, read about, listen to and buy from my site.

• 🐘 Follow @Synchro@phpc.social on Mastodon
• 🦆 Follow @SynchroM on Twitter (deprecated)
• ⁉️ Ask me a question on Stack Overflow
• 📘 Read my blog
• 🎸 Write a song with me – I'm always looking for collaborators, especially people that can sing!
• ⛷ Come skiing with me! Really! If you happen to be skiing near Combloux, Megève, St Gervais, Les Contamines, Flaine, Les Carroz, Chamonix, Morzine/Avoriaz/Les Gets, Samoëns, La Clusaz, drop me a note and I'll try not to scare you too much 😅