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title = "What Is This Place"
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"this place" is my own little corner of the net.
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a comfy, cozy home to which i can anchor amidst the turbulence of the www.
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that's the hope.
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complementary to the blog, i operate some adjacent public spaces:
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- <https://fed.uninsane.org>: a Pleroma instance that [i use](https://fed.uninsane.org/colin) for micro-blogging/socializing.
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- <@colin:matrix.uninsane.org>: my Matrix account for instant messaging.
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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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i don't have the registration functionality for these operational yet, but the Pleroma and Matrix
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instances do interoperate with the wider network.
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### Yes, but I Want to Know About _You_
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i have a name: Colin. when last names are in play i respond favorably
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to "Colin Sane", possibly because i find the wordplay more amusing than any sane person should.
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if you want to _know_ me, the best way is to _interact_ with me.
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send me a message on one of the above services.
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read one of the pieces i present here and write me some short (or long) reply.
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i'll read whatever you send my way and i'll appreciate you for having taken the time to communicate
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whatever it is that compels you.
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seriously: if you're the type of person to be reading "about" pages on a blog like this,
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in all likelihood you're exactly the sort of person i get along with.
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as for a bio: 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/License
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special thanks to the following for making this project possible:
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- SIL for providing the [Gentium](https://software.sil.org/gentium/) font used on this site. ([Open Font License][SIL-OFL])
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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 to the vague cloud of open works 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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