From d14f50c8dcc8ab30a5e5fa907b392ac0df6c7b52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Tristan=20Dani=C3=ABl=20Maat?= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 23:27:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] index: Rewrite work section --- packages/templates/src/index.html | 47 +++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/packages/templates/src/index.html b/packages/templates/src/index.html index 81df37c..31730aa 100644 --- a/packages/templates/src/index.html +++ b/packages/templates/src/index.html @@ -19,9 +19,8 @@ in order. My name's Tristan, I'm an avid Dutch-South African software - consultant working in the UK. You probably either met me at an - open source conference, a hackathon, a badminton session or at - a roleplaying table. + engineer. You probably either met me at an open source conference, + a hackathon, a badminton session or at a roleplaying table. If not, well, this is also a great place to "meet" me. Have a nosey! @@ -43,30 +42,28 @@ ### My Work - I'm a software consultant working for - [Codethink](https://www.codethink.co.uk) in Manchester, - UK. Our specializaiton is open source software, so this has - allowed me to directly contribute to a number of open source - projects, notably - [BuildStream](https://www.gitlab.com/buildstream/buildstream), - an integration tool for large software stacks. + I'm interested in a variety of things in the open source + world. Perhaps thanks to my pursuit of the perfect Linux desktop, + this has revolved a lot around reproducible build and deployment + systems for the last few years, initially starting with + [BuildStream](https://buildstream.build/) back in ~2017. I gave a + couple of talks on it at build meetups in the UK in subsequent + years, though sadly most evidence of that appears to have + disappeared. - I've given a couple of talks on it, as well: + Since then this has culminated in a strong fondness for + [NixOS](https://nixos.org/) and Nix, as its active community makes + private use cases much more feasible. As such, I have a vested + interest in making this community as large as possible - I post a + lot on the NixOS [discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/) trying + to help newcomers out where I can. - - Build meetup 2017 - - Build meetup 2018 - - Build meetup 2019 - - Outside of work for Codethink, I'm generally interested in - things such as NixOS and other tools that assist maintaining - Linux systems - mostly born out of my pursuit of the perfect - Linux desktop (feel free to have a browse through my - [dotfiles](https://github.com/tlater/dotfiles)). - - I also just enjoy Programming, my core languages currently are - Rust, Python, Lisp and JavaScript (including a number of - frameworks and tools for these), although I have hopes to - eventually reduce these to just Rust ;) + I also just enjoy Programming, my core languages for personal work + are currently probably Rust and Python, although I have a very + varied background. This is in part due to my former work as a + consultant, which required new languages every few months. I have + experience from JavaScript over Elm to Kotlin, but eventually I + hope I might only need to write Rust ;) If you're interested in seeing these things for yourself, visit my [Gitlab](https://gitlab.com/tlater) and