92 lines
3.6 KiB
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92 lines
3.6 KiB
HTML
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{% extends "base.html" %}
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{% block content %}
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<h2>Interest</h2>
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<p>
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This is a quick stop to see an overview of the various interests that I am currently pursuing.
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I suspect that most of them will wind up with their own pages.
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</p>
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<h3>Programming</h3>
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<p>
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As well as it now being my day job programming is something that I am fascinated by.
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Computers in general as the most ubiquitous tool that we use fascinate me.
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My computer serves as my workshop and computing in general as a subject of study.
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</p>
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<p>
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I do most of my programming in Rust.
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I like the performance of the language and the strong type system.
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It feels worth the extra headache sometimes to have code that runs once it compiles.
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</p>
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<p>
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Most of what I do personally and for work would be considered fullstack.
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Websites/apps and the corresponding backend service.
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I prefer simpler technology for my own work.
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Html and CSS over Typescript and React.
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The sites and the code are simpler and perform better I find.
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</p>
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<h3>Brazillian Jiu Jitsu</h3>
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I have spent a lot of time on martial arts in my life.
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Early on it was striking.
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Tae kwon do, Muai Thai.
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It took me all of one class in BJJ to realize that it was the one for me.
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</p>
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I love the cerebral nature of it.
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Endless depth in the game, and also personalized.
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Everyone fights differently based on their temperment, physique, and skills.
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</p>
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In training we can go hard.
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Harder than in any other martial art I have ever tried.
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The grappling nature of it and respecting the tap makes it safer to train much more like we would fight in competition.
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</p>
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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.
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It makes it more then just a sport.
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It has a philosophy, and that structure also engenders much more of a feeling of cameraderie I find.
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</p>
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<h3>Technological Independence</h3>
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The last few years I have been slowly working to remove myself from reliance on cloud services that I don't host.
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I don't trust the large tech companies that run all of these things to have my best interests at heart.
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</p>
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<p>
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The digital world has become a core part of my life, as I think it has for us all.
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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.
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So I am doing my best to host everything myself, use open standards, run my own server.
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</p>
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<p>
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The process of setting this all up and maintaining it is fascinating.
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So many neat tools, great communities, and infinite ways to personalize my setup.
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At the moment it requires a certain level of tech savvy that I am grateful to have.
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I would like to see what I can do to make it acheivable for anyone with a minimum of technical knowledge to have.
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Everyone deserves to be the final arbiter of their digital lives, private and public.
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</p>
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<h2>Open Web</h2>
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I have been spending almost all of my time on the internet exploring the open web.
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Various personal sites that I have found, many linking to eachother.
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You can see some of them in my <a href="/blogroll">blogroll</a> page.
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</p>
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I find this part of the web so peaceful.
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Writing made by people, for people.
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No search engine optimization.
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No ads, no tracking.
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</p>
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<p>
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It is what I am making this site to be a part of.
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</p>
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<h2><a href="/garden/books">Reading</h2>
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<h2><a href="/garden/cooking">Cooking</h2>
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{% endblock %}
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