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