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| title | date |
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| About me | 2021-09-10T19:34:01+02:00 |
I enjoy learning new things.
When I was younger I was lucky enough to be able to play around with computers and programming languages, but at the time I didn't yet realize how deep it all really is. I was barely writing my first programs in Lua, PHP, or JavaScript back then.
When I was about 16 years old, by chance, I came across a bunch of Japanese songs and I decided that I should learn this beautiful language. It's one thing to start learning a language and another to actually follow through and learn it, and well, I guess I'm just this crazy.
Once it was the time to go to a university I decided to study computer science, and that is where I actually learned what computer science really is or what implications it has. I came across language like OCaml and Scala which absolutely blew my mind.
Throughout the years that I could spend at the university I had the privilege to learn commonly used programming languages like C#, Java, TypeScript, Python, C++, and other useful technologies. I also went out of my own way to learn Haskell and Rust.
Q&A
Q. Why did you create this website?
I decided to create it as a way to practice my skills, and indeed a lot of what I currently know about running a website and web development is a direct result of me working on this. To simplify everything it's a static website served by Nginx, this way I don't have to do nearly any maintenance work.
Q. Can I take a look at the source code?
Sure thing! The source code is available either in a repository on my private Forgejo instance or on Codeberg (mirror), and you're welcome to learn. I just have one single request please, if you would like to use this code for your own website do allow others to learn from it too!
Q. What's your current setup?
I currently use Arch Linux with KDE Plasma desktop as my daily driver. For editing code I use Zed and Neovim. I also have a server running NixOS, it's the same server which serves this website.
Q. Why do you use Arch Linux?
In the past I used Windows, and GNU/Linux distros like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Debian Arch Linux or NixOS. Throughout the years I came to a realization that Arch Linux works for me. I enjoy the rolling release model and having everything up to date. NixOS is interesting, but I don't really feel like I benefit from it enough, so it's an overkill.
Q. Why do you use Zed?
I've used to use just Neovim, but then I moved to Zed, because it has more features out of the box, a proper plugin system and first class support for Vim bindings. I still use Neovim for some tasks, Zed is really nice to use as an IDE, while Neovim feels like a really nice notepad for quick edits in terminal. I don't feel like using Emacs, because I'm not really a fan of lisps, and it seems like way too much for my taste.