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{{ define "title" }}About Me{{ end }}
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<h1>About Me</h1>
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<blockquote>
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<em>Updated: Aug 11 2020</em>
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</blockquote>
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-12 col-sm-2 markdown">
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<img src="https://www.kirsle.net/static/photos/ff7ec4f5.jpg" class="img-responsive portrait" alt="Kirsle"><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-12 col-sm-10">
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<h2 class="mt-0">Hello world!</h2>
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<p>My name is <strong>Noah</strong> and this is my website, where I primarily keep
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my blog. I'm a 32 year-old software engineer from Portland, OR (previously Los
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Angeles for about a decade).</p>
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<p>I've been interested in computers my whole life ever since I was given an
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old Tandy MS-DOS machine running Windows 3.1 back when I was in kindergarten.
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I taught myself how to create web pages when I was 12, how to program in Perl
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by 14, and I've been in love with software development ever since! It's the
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closest thing to magick in an otherwise material universe; if you can imagine
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it, you can write code to do it!</p>
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<p>I'm a 90's kid and a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netizen" target="_blank">netizen</a>"
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of the web from the early 2000s, back when the Internet was simple and social
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media didn't exist. I purposely designed my website to resemble the good old
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classic sites from back then: with a visual wallpaper and lots of color. Only,
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now I make sites while keeping them compliant with modern HTML standards and
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friendly to view on mobile devices!</p>
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<p>Besides computers, I have a pretty wide array of other interests in my
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personal life; I'm a "jack of all trades, master of some" and like to dabble
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here or there. I love to write and create various forms of what could be loosely
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defined as "art." A long while ago I played with <a href="/rendering">3D modeling</a>
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and <a href="/flash">Flash animations</a>. I like to learn about all forms of
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science, delve into spiritual topics and explore the nature of the universe.
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I'm into nudism and nude photography, videogames and board games, hiking
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and camping, <a href="https://www.rivescript.com/" target="_blank">chat bots</a>,
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and discovering new things.</p>
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<p>I'm a "high functioning introvert," where I can go out and socialize from
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time to time, and fool people into thinking I'm actually an extravert, but
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then I need my alone time to recharge my batteries.</p>
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<h3>Music Taste</h3>
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<p>I don't listen to music much, instead tending to work in silence, but when
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I do, these are some artists I'm into recently (links open to a YouTube
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video of a song of theirs that I like):</p>
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<ul class="list-inline">
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<li class="list-inline-item">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAS5Z1GvxrQ" title="Tearing Me Up">Bob Moses</a>
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</li>
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<li class="list-inline-item">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExVtrghW5Y4" title="Sweatpants">Childish Gambino</a>
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</li>
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<li class="list-inline-item">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPfJnp1guPc" title="Young Dumb & Broke">Khalid</a>
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</li>
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<li class="list-inline-item">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP4eqhWc7sI" title="Lust For Life">Lana Del Rey</a>
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</li>
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<li class="list-inline-item">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S95INavMofc" title="Beacon">RY X</a>
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</li>
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<li class="list-inline-item">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wycjnCCgUes" title="Feels Like We Only Go Backwards">Tame Impala</a>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>I'll add more when I'm motivated.</p>
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<h2>Geeky Stuff</h2>
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<p>This website is open source. I wrote the back-end in Go this time at
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<a href="https://github.com/kirsle/blog">kirsle/blog</a>, and my front-end
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template files are readable <a href="https://github.com/kirsle/kirsle.net">on GitHub</a>
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too. But those aren't very interesting.</p>
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<p>Having learned to make websites in the early 2000's, I think we should
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return to the days of <a href="http://dynamicdrive.com/">Dynamic HTML</a>
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instead of these overly bloated web applications. My website speaks <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol">HTTP</a>,
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serves <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">HTML</a> pages, has <code><form></code>s that actually <code>POST</code>,
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and the little bits of JavaScript I add are to enhance the experience slightly.
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My website works fine with all scripts disabled.</p>
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<h3>Privacy</h3>
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In this post-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden">Snowden</a>
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era, maybe we should be more privacy conscious. Kirsle.net does not use any third-party
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advertisements or analytics tools. I <a href="/do-you-need-to-store-that-ip-address">don't want to know</a>
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your IP address, either. My website handles its own blog comments, rather than
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using something like Disqus, which invades your privacy as you visit the websites
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that use it.
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</div>
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</div>
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{{ end }}
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