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diff --git a/project/templates/about.html b/project/templates/about.html index c2c744c..7b6dc96 100644 --- a/project/templates/about.html +++ b/project/templates/about.html @@ -17,17 +17,22 @@ <h4>About Me</h4> -<p>Have you ever looked at the way things are done and just wanted to make it <em>better</em>? I -feel like that all the time. It's not even a matter of introducing something new. The field of -computing is littered with ideas that are well researched, have working prototypes, yet ended up -abandoned decades ago for no apparent reason. I expect other fields are probably similar. One of my -goals in life is to reduce this gap between what's known and what's actually used. Mainly in -software development, because that's what I'm most familiar with.</p> - -<p>So this website is primarily about hosting and talking about programming projects. Expect a bunch -of smaller less useful pieces before I get to the good stuff. But also expect electronics, civics, -foreign languages... basically anything catching my interest about which I can say something data -driven or otherwise interesting.</p> +<p>Does the massive gap between what is known and what is mainstream bother anyone else? It bothers +me. The field of computing is littered with ideas that are well researched, have working prototypes, +and would be very useful, yet ended up abandoned decades ago for no apparent reason. I expect other +fields are probably similar. One of my goals in life is to reduce this gap between what's known and +what's actually used. Mainly in software development, because that's what I'm most familiar with. +</p> + +<p>So this website is primarily about hosting and talking about programming projects. But also +expect electronics, civics, foreign languages, food, videogames... basically anything catching my +interest about which I can say something data driven or otherwise interesting.</p> + +<p>Details of where I grew up and whatnot are unimportant, but it is worth noting that in the first +half of 2021 I moved my place of residence from NSW, Australia to the South Island of New Zealand +due to extreme corruption and abuses of power going on in the Australian Federal Government. This +caused this website to go offline for a few months since it was being hosted on a home server at the +time, but it has since been moved to a VPS so that's all fixed now.</p> <h4>Qualifications</h4> @@ -39,7 +44,8 @@ driven or otherwise interesting.</p> </ul> <p>In 2012 I almost completed an extra honours year in computer science, before finding out that I'm -really not cut out for research. My mindset is too focused on solving problems. Practical problems. +really not cut out for research. My mindset is too focused on solving practical problems and my +talent for prose is comparatively not so great. </p> <h4>Contact</h4> @@ -51,7 +57,7 @@ really not cut out for research. My mindset is too focused on solving problems. </tr> <tr> <td>IRC:</td> - <td>jedb on irc.freenode.net</td> + <td>jedb on irc.libera.chat</td> </tr> </table> |