From 8e96b5a1bf03bb580d8e9eaefe94dbfc37496522 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Alexander \"Arav\" Andreev" Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2021 01:42:49 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] Integration of neocities' about page and small edits of existing text. --- homepage/views/about.pug | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/homepage/views/about.pug b/homepage/views/about.pug index ec03c88..1a301c1 100644 --- a/homepage/views/about.pug +++ b/homepage/views/about.pug @@ -17,19 +17,59 @@ mixin isServiceUp(service) block content section#about-me h2 Me - p #[span.highlighted Who am I?] I'm a russian guy who likes tinkering with computers. Some more on me you can read on #[a(href='https://arav.neocities.org/about.html') neocities' page]. + p #[span.highlighted Who am I?] My name is Alexander Andreev. I'm a russian guy of age 28 who likes tinkering with computers. p #[span.highlighted Why am I doing all of this?] I run my machines 24/7 anyway, so why not make them do some useful work that they can handle. Such as simple radio, file share via HTTP and FTP, Tor relay and I2P node, e-mail server, web and so on. - p #[span.highlighted Why am I almost “doxxing” myself?] Yes, since I host straight from my home you can get my city, but so can I do with you (if you don't use VPN or Tor :)). I don't think that's a problem. What's more important is that my data belongs only to me and I can access it from anywhere. :) That was a main goal of having a home server. - p But in addition I have my age, name and surname disclosed! Not a big deal for me as well. :) + p #[span.highlighted Why am I almost “doxxing” myself?] Yes, since I host straight from my home you can get my city, but so can I do with you (if you don't use VPN or Tor :))! Hehe. Yes, my full name and age are here as well. I don't think that's a problem. What's more important is that my data belongs only to me and I can access it from anywhere and choose what to publish. :) That was a main goal of having a home server. p #[span.highlighted Why particularly that slogan?] I just wanted sort of a slogan that'd fit under the logo and that was the first thing came in my mind. And eventually it became permanent as everything that was ever meant to be temporary. :) I actually like it. Don't you think of your websites as of very special place of your own? Of course you do. :) And who we are if not the wanderers that are wandering through the Intenets in searching for something we'd like? xD p #[span.highlighted Why English only?] I want this place to be accessible by wide audience, and English happen to be todays lingua franca. Second, I do that to practice English. And I'm lazy to maintain two versions of the same thing. - p P.S.: Yeah, I'm not so glad that this site partially repeats neocities' one. p Contact information and banners are #[a(href='#contacts') at the bottom of this page]. Yes, I totally agree with you not wanting to add my banner since I don't have a link page myself. :) Well, it's way easier to make a banner than a links page. :) + p Now a little break for... section#my-cat - h2 My cat :3 + h2 My cat Boris :3 figure.center a(href='/assets/img/my_cat.webp') img(src='/assets/img/my_cat_thumb.webp' title=':3' alt='My cat. :3') + section#more-about-me + p And here we continue. :) + h3 Hobbies + p Video games (since 1997) + p Computers (since 11th November 2004) + p Surfing the Internets (since February 2006) + p Mapping for Half-life 2, Counter-Strike: Source (since 2006, discontinued in 2009) (everything's fuarrkin' lost) + p Music writing (since 2007, last track was made in 2010) + p Programming (since 2007) + p Home servers (since 1st January 2017) + p Software Defined Radio (since June 2018) + + h3 What I know + h4 Human languages + p #[span.highlighted English] is my main foreign language and I think that I know it quite well. I have a nice pronunciation (my teacher once said so :)) and I tend to British non-rhotic variant. Of course I end up with a mix of all the flavours of different dialects. What I struggle from is a lack of speaking practice and vocabulary is also still a problem. + p #[span.highlighted Norwegian]. I tried to learn, but lack of usefulness made me to almost forget it. I just like how scandinavian languages sound and chose simplest for me to learn. + p #[span.highlighted Ukrainian] is easy to learn for me as I'm an east slav myself. By reading and listening to it here and there I can understand most of speech and say something not complicated. + p I like learning languages, but I'm being a lazy fuck won't let me learn something up to a reasonable level. :) So I end up being able to read and knowing some words and phrases. + h4 Computer languages + p #[span.highlighted For programming and scripting:] Python, PHP, JavaScript, and Bash for now are most used by me. Later I used: C, C++, C#, Delphi, Pascal, Java. + p #[span.highlighted Markup and declarative:] SQL (SQLite3, MariaDB), HTML5, CSS3, Latex, Markdown, XML, and JSON. + p And I don't know what else to put here. :^) + + h3 What I like + h4 Anime + p Ghost in the Shell, Shaman King, Hellsing, Steins;Gate, Cowboy Beebop, Ergo Proxy, Jin-Rou, Black Lagoon, Jojo's Bizzare Adventures, Spice and Wolf, Konosuba + h4 Films + p WarGames (1983), Hackers (1995), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Snatch (2000), Valhalla Rising (2009), Who am I (2014), movies with Jackie Chan, Matrix (1999, 2003), Stargate (1994), Blade Runner (1982) + h4 TV shows + p X-Files (1993—2002), Lost (2004—2010), Stargate: SG-1 (1997—2007), Stargate: Atlantis (2004—2009) + p Films and TV shows aren't complete lists, I will add when remember something. + p I actually don't watch much, and if I watch I go for a marathon, and if only I take a break in the middle of a show, then that break could last for years. xD And if I download some film it could sit for years, as it was with Valhalla Rising, it was waiting for me to watch for 3 fucking years. xD + h4 Games for SEGA Mega Drive + p Not a lot of games I've played. + p Bubba'n'Stix, Battletoads, Granada, Demolition Man, Road Rash, Doom Troopers - The Mutant Chronicles, The Lost Vikings, Ghostbusters, Mig-29 Fighter Pilot. + h4 Games for PC + p Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (my first computer game), Half-Life (all), StarCraft, Diablo 2, Far Cry (2004), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Portal, Freelancer, F.E.A.R., S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Grand Theft Auto 4, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Payday 2, The Witcher (1st, 2nd, 3rd didn't finished yet), Minecraft, Terraria, Starbound, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Mount & Blade: Warband, Papers, Please, Elite: Dangerous, theHunter: Call of the Wild, American Truck Simulator, Rocket League, Sea Of Thieves. + p I'm CMDR Arav in Elite: Dangerous. My EDSM profile. + p I play TruckersMP mod for Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. Nickname is Arav with a tag [RU64]. + h4 Music + p My favorites that I like almost fully are Falkenbach, Korpiklaani, Sólstafir, Lacrimosa, Enigma, Röyksopp, Nagrobki, Burzum, maybe I forgot to mention something. You can see what I like on file share. I have a tendency to listening to the same music for a long time, so only way for me to know about other music are online-radios and WEBM threads on IBs. :) section#servers-summary h2 My servers p I have two of them, the first one is a #[a(href='https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/' rel='nofollow noreferrer') Raspberry Pi 3 rev. B] single board computer and the second one is a laptop. Yeah, not quite impressive, but they do their work just fine.