My landing page, written in Astro
hayden.moe
feat: about me page
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---
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import Shell from '../layouts/shell.astro';
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const birthdate = "2003-11-13T03:00:00Z";
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const ageDiff = new Date(Date.now() - new Date(birthdate).getTime());
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const age = ageDiff.getUTCFullYear() - 1970
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---
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<Shell title="hayden@web ~/about">
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<div class="prose max-w-2xl mx-auto">
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<h1>About me</h1>
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<p>
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Hi! I'm Hayden. I'm a software engineer turned platform engineer from the
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UK. I'm a {age}-year old from the UK, based in Sheffield.
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</p>
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<p>
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I'm... reasonably active online, tending to spend my time playing games,
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working on personal projects, or otherwise being offline with friends or
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my partner in the meatspace.
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<p>
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I'm proudly autistic and bisexual, <i>possibly</i> a little ADHD, though
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I don't care enough to sit through the multiple-generations-long waiting
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list with the NHS to find out 'officially', I'm lucky enough to not have
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my mental state be too obstructive to my work or my life.
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</p>
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<h2>My interests</h2>
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I'm a pretty open book when it comes to my interests, in that I don't have
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<i>tons</i> to begin with. In my free time, I usually end up
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<span class="line-through">trying to bend computers to my will</span>
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programming or learning new compsci concepts and disciplines.
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Primarily over the past couple years, my interest has been in the sort of
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mid-level computing stuff. Not quite end-user, like web apps and iOS apps,
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not quite low-level, like kernels or drivers, but more infrastructure.
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One of my big interests is playing around with self-hosting various apps
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& services on my home Kubernetes cluster,
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<a href="https://github.com/hbjydev/phoebe">Phoebe</a>, as well as playing
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with the not-quite-end-user style of software, like AT Proto Personal Data
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Servers, which I think are cool for reasons I'm sure I'll explain in a
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blog post at some point in time.
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<i>Outside</i> of programming, though... I enjoy gaming, particularly
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military simulators ('milsims') and flight simulators, but rarely the
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middle of that venn diagram, I'm much more of a "1000 hours in Arma 3 and
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MSFS 2024" person than a "500 hours in Arma 3, 700 in War Thunder" person.
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As with any 18-year-old, I went through a phase of constantly going out to
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drink with friends and going to clubs and such, but these days I much
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prefer sitting with some mates at a nice dive bar, just having a natter
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and shooting the proverbial shit with them for a few hours.
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</p>
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<h2>My toolchain</h2>
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<h3>Computers</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>titan: my arch install, also my main dev setup and recently gaming too</li>
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<li>tethys: my windows install, mainly for flight sim reasons</li>
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<li>phoebe: my (currently) single-node talos linux cluster running my self-hosted services</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Note: I used to use NixOS on Phoebe before a brief trial of Proxmox
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followed by a full conversion to Talos. But... <a href="/posts/3lfcifg7u4s2l/#where-does-nix-fall-over">I fell out of love with
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Nix</a>, and NixOS has its own issues.
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</p>
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<h3>Programming Languages</h3>
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<p>In order of my most to least enjoyed & loved:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Rust</li>
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<li>Go</li>
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<li>TypeScript</li>
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<li>Kotlin</li>
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<li>C# (specifically .NET)</li>
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<li>Java</li>
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<li>JavaScript (TypeScript is infinitely better)</li>
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<li>...</li>
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<li>...</li>
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<li>...</li>
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<li>Python (sorry, had to really show how much i dislike it with the ...s above)</li>
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Now, this list isn't exhaustive, and I pick up new languages pretty quick,
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so I'm sure it'll grow over time.
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</p>
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<h3>Editor</h3>
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Primarily, I use <a href="https://neovim.io">Neovim</a>, which is a fork
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of Vim with some extra quality-of-life features like Lua for configuration
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over Vimscript/VimL, and built-in LSP support.
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If you want to see or try out my config, it lives
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<a href="https://github.com/hbjydev/hvim.lua">on GitHub</a>.
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</div>
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<div class="flex flex-col gap-2">
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<span class="font-bold text-lg">On this site</span>
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<ul class="list-disc list-inside">
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<li><a class="text-pink underline" href="/about">About me</a></li>
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<li><a class="text-pink underline" href="/posts">Blog</a></li>
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<li><a class="text-pink underline" href="/ring">Webring</a></li>
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</ul>