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i don't know any better than you
"this place" is my own little corner of the net.
a comfy, cozy home to which i can anchor amidst the turbulence of the www.
that's the hope.
complementary to the blog, i operate some adjacent public spaces:
- <https://fed.uninsane.org>: a Pleroma instance that [i use](https://fed.uninsane.org/colin) for micro-blogging/socializing.
- <@colin:matrix.uninsane.org>: my Matrix account for instant messaging.
- <https://git.uninsane.org>: a gitea instance for code hosting/collaborating/sharing (the repo for this site itself lives [here](https://git.uninsane.org/colin/uninsane)).
i don't have the registration functionality for these operational yet, but the Pleroma and Matrix
instances do interoperate with the wider network.
## Yes, but I Want to Know About&nbsp;_You_
i have a name: Colin. when last names are in play i respond favorably
to "Colin Sane", possibly because i find the wordplay more amusing than any sane person should.
if you want to _know_ me, the best way is to _interact_ with me.
send me a message on one of the above services.
read one of the pieces i present here and write me some short (or long) reply.
i'll read whatever you send my way and i'll appreciate you for having taken the time to communicate
whatever it is that compels you.
seriously: if you're the type of person to be reading "about" pages on a blog like this,
in all likelihood you're exactly the sort of person i get along with.
if you're dying for a bio: i'm a guy living out his 20's in Seattle.
i grew up in the suburbs and moved to the city for uni, but i can visit every home i've had with one afternoon and a car.
i've always loved to tinker, particularly with machines. in some ways DIY defines my life.
after spending my teens coding video games and synthesizers,
i broadened the domain through
Electrical Engineering studies at the University of Washington.
i specialized in digital VLSI, colloquially, "chip design".
since then i've worked a couple jobs at mid-size tech companies,
but increasingly i struggle to reconcile my old days of exploring and building
machines by hand with the broader norm of black-box products
delivered to passive consumers. why _can't_ i build the CPU
for this server the same way i build the software for it?
in the extreme, why _can't_ i build my own physical home the same
way i build my digital home here? in the very long run, that
seems like a reasonable goal. it seems like a fulfilling direction
in which to push things.