From bd02716c744e547771c0789f98255c857945e0c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Alexander \"Arav\" Andreev" Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 04:20:40 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updated about page. --- homepage/views/about.pug | 26 +++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/homepage/views/about.pug b/homepage/views/about.pug index a5f1d96..3fb5132 100644 --- a/homepage/views/about.pug +++ b/homepage/views/about.pug @@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ block content section#about-me h2 Me p #[span.highlighted Who am I?] My name is Alexander Andreev. I'm a russian guy of age 29 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, Tor relay and I2P node, e-mail server, home website 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, Tor or I2P :))! Hehe. Yes, my full name and age are here as well, and that's not a problem for me. Speaking of self-hosting the most important thing 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 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 And yes, it's a pain in the ass to make it fit under logo across different browsers. That was the moment when I found out that different browsers render text differently. - 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 website, neither see a good reason for that. - 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 #[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. + p #[span.highlighted Why am I almost “doxxing” myself?] Yes, my real name, surname and age are here, and since I self-host you can get my city as well. And I simply don't see that as a problem. + p #[span.highlighted Why particularly that slogan?] I just wanted sort of a slogan that would fit under the logo and this was the first thing came in 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 looking for something we'd like? xD And yes, it's a pain in the ass to make it fit under logo across different browsers. That was the moment when I found out that different browsers render text differently. + 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 third, I'm lazy to maintain two versions of the website, neither see a good reason for that. + 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, neither participate in any webring. :) 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 Boris :3 @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ block content figure a(href='/assets/img/my_cat_2.webp') img(src='/assets/img/my_cat_2_thumb.webp' title='xDDDD' alt='xDDDD') - section#more-about-me p And here we continue. :) + section#more-about-me h3 Hobbies p Video games (since 1997) p Computers (since 11th November 2004) @@ -42,21 +42,21 @@ block content 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 (#[s LARP'ing as a system administrator]) Home servers (since 1st January 2017) + p #[s (LARP'ing as a system administrator)] 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 English] is my main foreign language and I think that I know it quite well, but every time I reread what I wrote here I'm constantly catching cringe vibes. xD I have a nice pronunciation (my teacher once said so :)) and 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. + p I like learning languages, but me being a lazy fuck won't let me learn something up to a reasonable level. :) I tried german, french, norwegian, japanese, ukrainian. But I don't have enough passion for that. 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 For programming and scripting:] Python, Go, JavaScript, and Bash for now are most used by me. Later I used or tasted: Pascal, Delphi, C#, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP. 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 + p In more or less timeline order. 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 @@ -64,12 +64,12 @@ block content 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, will extend 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 + 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 Oh, what made me to watch it? An one and a half hour long power outage. 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, Lineage 2, 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 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Half-Life (all), StarCraft, Diablo 2, Far Cry (2004), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Boiling Point: Road to Hell, Portal, Freelancer, F.E.A.R., S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Grand Theft Auto 4, Lineage 2, The Elder Scrolls V: 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, Insurgency, 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