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HTML
90 lines
4.0 KiB
HTML
{% extends "layout.html" %}
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{% block title %}About Me{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}
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<h1>About Me</h1>
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-lg-2">
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<img src="/static/photos/ff7ec4f5.jpg" class="img-responsive portrait" alt="Kirsle"><p>
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<img src="/static/icons/aim.gif" width="16" height="15" alt="AIM">
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<strong>AIM: </strong>
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<a href="aim:goim?ScreenName=Kirsle">Kirsle</a><br>
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<img src="/static/icons/xmpp.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="XMPP">
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<strong>XMPP:</strong>
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kirsle@kirsle.net<p>
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¤ <a href="/contact">Send me an e-mail</a>
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</div>
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<div class="col-lg-10">
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<h2>Hello world!</h2>
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My name is <strong>Noah</strong> and this is my website. I am a software engineer who lives in
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Los Angeles. My areas of expertise are primarily in Perl and Python back-end
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software development, however I believe I have a knack for the front end as well.<p>
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I built Kirsle.net from the ground up. Its back-end code has been rewritten a
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dozen different times, in two different languages. I made the web design in Photoshop and
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pieced it together using standards compliant HTML 5 (the spec, not the
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buzzword), CSS and a little bit of JavaScript. The back end is entirely written
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in Python. The previous version of Kirsle.net was written in Perl and ran on my
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"PerlSiikir" CMS. I rewrote it in Python
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<a href="/blog/entry/goodbye-perlsiikir">for various reasons</a>, and I like Python
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more these days anyway. <img src="/static/smileys/tango/wink.png" alt=";)"><p>
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Besides being a rockstar at back end development and a pretty decent web designer,
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I've dabbled in some 3D modeling, Flash animation and other artistic things.
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You can find them under the "Creativity" section on the left navigation. :)<p>
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Some of my personal projects are listed under the "Software" section to your
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left. The rest you'll find on my
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<a href="https://github.com/kirsle">GitHub page</a> and
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<a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kirsle">CPAN profile</a>.
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<h2>Kirsle?</h2>
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Where did I come up with the name Kirsle? Long-ish story, but here's the cliffnotes:
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<ul>
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<li>In 1997 when the Internet was still brand new, They didn't want us
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using our real names online so I always went by one screen name or
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another.</li>
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<li>The game <em>NiGHTS: Into Dreams...</em> for the Sega Saturn had an
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enemy on some levels named Kircle, and I liked the name but I read
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it as though the "C" were pronounced like an "S". Nonetheless, it
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became my screen name.</li>
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<li>People often pronounced it with a hard "C". The last straw was when
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I discovered that Text-to-Speech software also pronounced it this way.</li>
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<li>I re-spelled it as Kirsle so it was spelled how I wanted it to be
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pronounced.</li>
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<li>In doing so, I created the most unique name ever. All of the Google
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search results for Kirsle are about me!</li>
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</ul>
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Later on I turned Kirsle into a full Internet alias/fake name of
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Casey Kirsle, which I used as my name for several years online (some of
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my older Perl modules on CPAN are signed by this name). <em>That</em> was
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mostly because I like the name Casey, and Kirsle could plausibly sound like
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a last name. <img src="/static/smileys/tango/wink.png" alt=";)"><p>
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<h2>Kirsle.net is Open Source</h2>
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The Python code that powers Kirsle.net is an open source project of mine named
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<a href="http://rophako.kirsle.net/">Rophako</a>. It means "Website" in
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<a href="/wizards/translator.html">Azulian</a>. The Rophako CMS is open source
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software that I released under the GNU General Public License and you can
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<a href="https://github.com/kirsle/rophako">clone it on GitHub</a>. The HTML
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files for Kirsle.net are <a href="https://github.com/kirsle/kirsle.net">also
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on GitHub</a>, but those probably aren't very interesting to you.<p>
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The CMS supports a web blog, photo albums, comments, and subscriptions to comments
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(so that your guests can watch a comment thread for future posts by others). I'm
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always improving it and adding new features.
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</div>
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</div>
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{% endblock %}
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