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"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 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).
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 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.
as 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 it takes only a 30 mile radius to enclose every home i've had. 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.
Attributions/License
special thanks to the following for making this project possible:
- SIL for providing the Gentium font used on this site. (Open Font License)
- Zola for providing the Markdown => HTML Static Site Generator.
- nginx for developing the software which serves you this content over HTTP.
- nixos for developing the operating system of this host.
- Raspberry Pi Foundation for developing the hardware which hosts all the above.
- the thousands of contributors out there contributing to the vague cloud of open works upon which all these things depend.