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import MainTemplate from "@/templates/MainTemplate"
import portrait from "../images/portrait-compressed.jpg"
const AboutPage = () => {
return (
<MainTemplate>
<div className="mb-5 ">
<h2 className="scroll-m-20 text-2xl font-bold lg:text-2xl border-b pb-3">
About
</h2>
</div>
<figure className="w-full flex flex-col items-center mb-6">
<img
alt="A portrait of the blog author"
src={portrait}
className="w-0 flex"
/>
<figcaption className="text-sm text-muted-foreground mt-3 text-center">
Pictured with the WITCH computer at the{" "}
<a
href="https://www.tnmoc.org/"
target="_blank"
className="text-primary hover:text-primary/80"
>
National Museum of Computing
</a>
, Bletchley Park.
</figcaption>
</figure>
<p className="leading-[1.5] [&:not(:first-child)]:mt-6">
I'm a self-taught software engineer based on the south coast of England.
This blog is my technical scrapbook. I document the details of my
technical life so I can have a record of progress when I look back.{" "}
</p>
<p className="leading-[1.5] [&:not(:first-child)]:mt-6">
I completed a degree in Philosophy at the University of Warwick (2009)
and hold a Postgraduate Certificate of Education (2011).
</p>
<p className="leading-[1.5] [&:not(:first-child)]:mt-6">
Currently I work for{" "}
<a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)"
target="_blank"
className="underline decoration-1 hover:text-primary/80 underline-offset-2"
>
ITV
</a>{" "}
{""}
as a backend software engineer. Before that, I worked as a full-stack
engineer at the{" "}
<a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC"
target="_blank"
className="underline decoration-1 hover:text-primary/80 underline-offset-2"
>
BBC
</a>{" "}
and as a frontend engineer at{" "}
<a
href="https://www.arria.com/"
target="_blank"
className="underline decoration-1 hover:text-primary/80 underline-offset-2"
>
Arria NLG
</a>{" "}
and in several web developer roles. Before software I was a
teacher.{" "}
</p>
<p className="leading-[1.5] [&:not(:first-child)]:mt-6">
Some things I like:
<ul className="pt-2">
<li className="mb-1">🐶 Staffies and other bull-breeds</li>
<li className="mb-1">🎼 Classical music (Haydn, Mozart, JSB)</li>
<li className="mb-1">🛸 Science fiction </li>
</ul>
</p>
<p className="leading-[1.5] [&:not(:first-child)]:mt-6">
Some things I'm interested in:
<ul className="pt-2">
<li className="mb-1">🧑💻 Self-hosting and digital resiliance</li>
<li className="mb-1">🖳 The history of computing and networks</li>
<li className="mb-1">🇮🇪 Irish history and culture</li>
<li className="mb-1"> Buddhism</li>
{/*
<li className="mb-1">📡 Civil communications infrastructure</li>
*/}
</ul>
</p>
<p className="leading-[1.5] [&:not(:first-child)]:mt-6">
I self-host my own Git forge at{" "}
<a
href="https://forgejo.systemsobscure.net/thomasabishop"
className="underline decoration-1 hover:text-primary/80 underline-offset-2"
>
forgejo.systemsobscure.net
</a>{" "}
rather than use Microsoft GitHub. You can view my personal projects
there.
</p>
</MainTemplate>
)
}
export { AboutPage }