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title: About me
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date: 2021-09-10T19:34:01+02:00
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I enjoy learning new things.
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When I was younger I was lucky enough to be able to play around with computers
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and programming languages, but at the time I didn't yet realize how deep it all
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really is. I was barely writing my first programs in Lua, PHP, or JavaScript
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back then.
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When I was about 16 years old, by chance, I came across a bunch of
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[Japanese](https://youtu.be/SfnbdZR2KOo) [songs](https://youtu.be/M5xgGWeK1lQ)
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and I decided that I should learn this beautiful language. It's one thing to
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start learning a language and another to actually follow through and learn it,
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and well, I guess I'm just this crazy.
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Once it was the time to go to a university I decided to study computer science,
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and that is where I actually learned what computer science really is or what
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implications it has. I came across language like OCaml and Scala which
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absolutely blew my mind.
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Throughout the years that I could spend at the university I had the privilege
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to learn commonly used programming languages like C#, Java, TypeScript, Python,
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C++, and other useful technologies. I also went out of my own way to learn
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Haskell and Rust.
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## Q&A
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**Q. Why did you create this website?**
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I decided to create it as a way to practice my skills, and indeed a lot of what
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I currently know about running a website and web development is a direct result
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of me working on this. To simplify everything it's a static website served by
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Nginx, this way I don't have to do nearly any maintenance work.
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**Q. Can I take a look at the source code?**
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Sure thing! The source code is available either in a repository on
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[my private Forgejo instance](https://git.kamoshi.org/kamov/website) or
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[on Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/kamov/website) (mirror), and you're welcome
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to learn. I just have one single request please, if you would like to use this
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code for your own website do allow others to learn from it too!
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**Q. What's your current setup?**
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I currently use Arch Linux with KDE Plasma desktop as my daily driver. For
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editing code I use Zed and Neovim. I also have a server running NixOS, it's the
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same server which serves this website.
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**Q. Why do you use Arch Linux?**
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In the past I used Windows, and GNU/Linux distros like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Debian
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Arch Linux or NixOS. Throughout the years I came to a realization that Arch
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Linux works for me. I enjoy the rolling release model and having everything up
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to date. NixOS is interesting, but I don't really feel like I benefit from it
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enough, so it's an overkill.
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**Q. Why do you use Zed?**
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I've used to use just Neovim, but then I moved to Zed, because it has more
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features out of the box, a proper plugin system and first class support for Vim
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bindings. I still use Neovim for some tasks, Zed is really nice to use as an
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IDE, while Neovim feels like a really nice notepad for quick edits in terminal.
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I don't feel like using Emacs, because I'm not really a fan of lisps, and it
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seems like way too much for my taste.
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