achubb_website/templates/interests.html

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<h2>Interest</h2>
<p>
    This is a quick stop to see an overview of the various interests that I am currently pursuing.
    I suspect that most of them will wind up with their own pages.
</p>

<h3>Programming</h3>
<p>
    As well as it now being my day job programming is something that I am fascinated by.
    Computers in general as the most ubiquitous tool that we use fascinate me.
    My computer serves as my workshop and computing in general as a subject of study.
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<p>
    I do most of my programming in Rust.
    I like the performance of the language and the strong type system.
    It feels worth the extra headache sometimes to have code that runs once it compiles.
</p>
<p>
    Most of what I do personally and for work would be considered fullstack.
    Websites/apps and the corresponding backend service.
    I prefer simpler technology for my own work.
    Html and CSS over Typescript and React.
    The sites and the code are simpler and perform better I find.
</p>

<h3>Brazillian Jiu Jitsu</h3>
<p>
    I have spent a lot of time on martial arts in my life.
    Early on it was striking.
    Tae kwon do, Muai Thai.
    It took me all of one class in BJJ to realize that it was the one for me.
</p>
<p>
    I love the cerebral nature of it.
    Endless depth in the game, and also personalized.
    Everyone fights differently based on their temperment, physique, and skills.
</p>
<p>
    In training we can go hard.
    Harder than in any other martial art I have ever tried.
    The grappling nature of it and respecting the tap makes it safer to train much more like we would fight in competition.
</p>
<p>
    The art also has a lot of tradition and respect involved in it which I have loved ever since I did Tae Kwon Do in a very traditional school when I was younger.
    It makes it more then just a sport.
    It has a philosophy, and that structure also engenders much more of a feeling of cameraderie I find.
</p>

<h3>Technological Independence</h3>
<p>
    The last few years I have been slowly working to remove myself from reliance on cloud services that I don't host.
    I don't trust the large tech companies that run all of these things to have my best interests at heart.
</p>
<p>
    The digital world has become a core part of my life, as I think it has for us all.
    Just as I would be suspicious if I needed someone else's permission to use my computer itself, or any other tool/gadget/anything that I own, I feel that way about applications and data as well.
    So I am doing my best to host everything myself, use open standards, run my own server.
</p>
<p>
    The process of setting this all up and maintaining it is fascinating.
    So many neat tools, great communities, and infinite ways to personalize my setup.
</p>
<p>
    At the moment it requires a certain level of tech savvy that I am grateful to have.
    I would like to see what I can do to make it acheivable for anyone with a minimum of technical knowledge to have.
    Everyone deserves to be the final arbiter of their digital lives, private and public.
</p>

<h2>Open Web</h2>
<p>
    I have been spending almost all of my time on the internet exploring the open web.
    Various personal sites that I have found, many linking to eachother.
    You can see some of them in my <a href="/blogroll">blogroll</a> page.
</p>
<p>
    I find this part of the web so peaceful.
    Writing made by people, for people.
    No search engine optimization.
    No ads, no tracking.
</p>
<p>
    It is what I am making this site to be a part of.
</p>

<h2><a href="/garden/books">Reading</h2>
<h2><a href="/garden/cooking">Cooking</h2>
<h2><a href="/garden/technology">Technology</h2>
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