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title = "What Is This Place"
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2022-05-25 21:40:27 +00:00
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my hope is for this place to be a home of sorts. so, welcome to my home.
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don't expect any stilted professionalism here, but i hope you will find care, sincerity
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and the closest approximation to authenticity of which this medium is capable.
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2022-04-05 06:31:10 +00:00
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besides the blog, you can find me here:
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- Matrix (instant messaging): [@colin:uninsane.org](https://matrix.to/#/@colin:uninsane.org)
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2023-12-09 14:00:51 +00:00
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- XMPP/Jabber (IM): [colin@uninsane.org](xmpp:colin@uninsane.org)
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- ActivityPub (social media): [@colin@fed.uninsane.org](https://fed.uninsane.org/colin)
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- Email: (my name)@uninsane.org
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- Gitea (code hosting/collaboration): <https://git.uninsane.org>
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the sources for uninsane.org itself live [here](https://git.uninsane.org/colin/uninsane).
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if you have comments or questions about anything you read here -- or if you're just generally curious
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and want to know me better -- do reach out. i'm a huge believer in the web as a tool for like-minded
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individuals to come together, and if you're the type to be reading "about" pages on a blog like this
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then we may be quite alike :-)
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the big email providers don't always play nicely with smaller hosts like me though,
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so please consider those other options above first.
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and if you want to foray into ActivityPub/Matrix/etc but don't know where to set up, i'm happy to host
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you. crawl through the above links til you hit a 'register' button, then use that and send a short
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introduction through any other means so i know you're not spam.
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2022-05-01 00:28:11 +00:00
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2022-04-05 08:32:35 +00:00
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### Yes, but I Want to Know About _You_
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if you haven't figured it out yet, my name's Colin.
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i'm a guy living out his 20's in Seattle.
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i grew up in the suburbs, moved to the city for uni, and can't imagine ever going back.
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i've always loved to tinker, particularly with machines. in some ways DIY defines my life.
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after spending my teens coding video games and synthesizers,
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i continued on to study Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington.
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i specialized in digital VLSI, colloquially, "chip design".
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since then i've worked a couple jobs at mid-size tech companies,
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but increasingly i struggle to reconcile my old days of exploring and building
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things by hand with the broader norm of black-box products
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delivered to passive consumers. why _can't_ i build the CPU
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for this server the same way i build the software for it?
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in the extreme, why _can't_ i build my own physical home the same
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way i build my digital home here? let's eliminate this
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division between "producer" and "consumer" and be both at the
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same time: that's what i'm about.
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2023-12-31 12:21:38 +00:00
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### Work With Me
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if you're a part of some project broadly aligned with the ideals you see represented here, please contact me!
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i'm available for full-time or part-time work; salaried or contract, fixed-term or ongoing.
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i can generally find my way through any area of the computing stack which doesn't require a literal PhD,
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given _enough_ time, but the skills i've most honed include:
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- Rust, C/C++, Python
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- Systems engineering, networking, systems administration
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- Signal processing, numerical approximation, etc
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### Attributions
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special thanks to the following for powering this blog:
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- SIL for providing the [Gentium](https://software.sil.org/gentium/) font used on this site.
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- [Zola](https://www.getzola.org/) for providing the Markdown => HTML Static Site Generator.
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- [nginx](https://nginx.org/) for developing the software which serves you this content over HTTP.
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- [nixos](https://nixos.org/) for developing the operating system of this host.
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- [Raspberry Pi Foundation](https://www.raspberrypi.org/) for developing the hardware which hosts all the above.
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- the thousands of dreamers out there contributing in every manner to the open web upon which all these things depend.
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[SIL-OFL]: http://scripts.sil.org/ofl
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[ZOLA-MIT]: https://github.com/getzola/zola/blob/master/LICENSE
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[NGINX-2BSD]: https://nginx.org/LICENSE
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