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1 # About Me 2 3 Hi! I'm Alex. I'm a software engineer living near Boston, MA. 4 My professional career has been quite the journey from developer 5 tooling to infrastructure/devops to web backends and now data 6 pipelines. However, I mostly [blog](/blog) about hobbies. 7 Things like: 8 9 - Exploring niche operating systems like 10 [Plan 9](/blog/exploring-plan9.html) 11 - Perusing the "smolweb" via internet protocols like [Gopher](/blog/burrowing.html) 12 - Sysadmin-ing [several servers](/blog/starting-a-tilde.html) 13 14 Outside of tech, I enjoy playing music, hiking, and a sharing 15 a good board among friends. 16 17 ## About This Site 18 19 This site is an ever-changing hobby project where I use the 20 markup and build system as an excuse to learn and/or build new 21 tools. 22 23 In 2020, I [rewrote the site](/blog/my-old-man.html) as a series 24 of man-pages in [`mdoc(7)`](https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7), 25 writing new blog posts in the language and developing a toolchain 26 to [support feeds](/blog/use-feeds.html), [text-only versions](/blog/text-only.html), 27 and eventually a [gopher mirror](/blog/burrowing.html). 28 29 At the end of 2021, I really wanted a lower-friction medium to 30 blog on (akin to the plaintext I was writing on my 31 [phlog](gopher://alexkarle.com/1/phlog)). Looking to keep the 32 site buildable by base OpenBSD as a 33 [creative limitation](/blog/creative-coding.html), 34 I took the opportunity to write my own 35 lightweight markup parser, [`nihdoc`](https://git.sr.ht/~akarle/nihdoc). 36 37 For a brief period, this site was a [lookalike](/acme-index.html) 38 of [Plan 9](https://9p.io/plan9/)'s editor/interface 39 [Acme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_%28text_editor%29), 40 but as I haven't used it in a while I've toned it back to 41 a simple background-color homage :)