From 6a1a2acb73604997b08f0a60fdae87439b34bc10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Tristan=20Dani=C3=ABl=20Maat?= <tm@tlater.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 23:27:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] index: Rewrite work section
---
packages/templates/src/index.html | 35 ++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/packages/templates/src/index.html b/packages/templates/src/index.html
index 81df37c..93fbc36 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!
@@ -43,13 +42,11 @@
<markdown>
### 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've given a couple of talks on it, as well:
@@ -57,16 +54,16 @@
- 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)).
+ This has since culminated in a strong fondness for
+ [NixOS](https://nixos.org/) and nix - I post a lot on the
+ [discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/).
- 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, in part due to my former work as a consultant,
+ which required new languages every few months. This goes 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
From d14f50c8dcc8ab30a5e5fa907b392ac0df6c7b52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Tristan=20Dani=C3=ABl=20Maat?= <tm@tlater.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 23:27:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] 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 @@
<markdown>
### 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