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title = "What Is This Place"
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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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besides the blog, you can find me here:
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- [@colin@fed.uninsane.org](https://fed.uninsane.org/colin): my Pleroma account for micro-blogging/socializing.
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- [@colin:uninsane.org](https://matrix.to/#/@colin:uninsane.org): my Matrix account for instant messaging (a web client lives [here](https://web.matrix.uninsane.org)).
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- (my name)@uninsane.org: self-hosted email. add me to your client's address book and check your spam folder for replies: not all hosts recognize my server as reputable yet.
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- <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)).
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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 -- use one of the above. i'm a huge believer in the social web
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(AKA "small web", "indie web", etc)
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and if you're the type to be reading "about" pages on a blog like this we're likely to get along :-)
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if you're looking for accounts on the above, i'm happy to host you: just click through and look for the 'register' button.
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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 and moved to the city for uni, but it takes only a 30 mile radius to enclose every home i've had.
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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 broadened the domain through
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Electrical Engineering studies 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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machines 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? in the very long run, that
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seems like a reasonable goal. it seems like a fulfilling direction
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in which to push things.
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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 contributors 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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