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About me
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<h1>About me</h1>
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I'm a student from Timișoara, Romania, interested in programming and computers in
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general.
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<p>
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I use <b>GNU/Linux Mint</b> on all 3 of my computers. I like it because it's easy to use but
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without compromising on customisation, and that the developers are very engaged with the
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community (I've even had a conversation with Clement Lefebvre, the lead developer of
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Linux Mint; can you have one with Tim Cook, Pavan Davuluri, or even Mark Shuttleworth?).
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<p>
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I do disagree with some of the decisions made by the Linux Mint team, and I'm probably
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going to make my own Debian Testing-based distribution in the future, but that's only
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because of other reasons, I would still be happy to use Linux Mint.
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I believe GNU/Linux only lacks the promotion it deserves. Unless it gets some promotion
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(think advertising, pre-installation on computers etc.), even from a specific
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distributor, or a miracle happens, the paradox will remain: people don't use GNU/Linux
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because it doesn't have enough software, and software developers don't make software for
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it because it's not popular enough.
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I prefer using libre software <i>when practical</i> (so phones are an exception, because
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there's no libre phone that's at a decent price with decent hardware; I still want a
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libre phone so much, but wasting 1 year to get GNU/Linux on a 4-year-old phone isn't
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OK for me).
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<p>
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I don't want a GNU/Linux phone for privacy or any specific feature; I want it because
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I want to have control over my phone and do anything the hardware is capable of. Androids
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aren't smartphones, they're Java phones that happen to use the Linux kernel.
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I do web development, the old-school way, with Flask, Jinja2, HTML, plain CSS and JS.
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I don't do SPAs because you have to duplicate your logic, and also reimplement the
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browser's features. I hate the trend of everything being a SPA, including static sites,
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e-commerce, blogs, GitHub, and more. I have no plans to learn React, Angular, Vue, or
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Svelte. Also, I don't design UIs with Figma or similar tools, I just write an initial
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version in code and iterate on it.
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It's fine that SPAs exist, but they should only be used when building something like
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Google Maps, Google Sheets, games or other things that update a lot.
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I do enjoy using htmx for AJAX-like updates, I write my own JS when I really need it,
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and I like using WebAssembly with MicroPython for interactive features. MicroPython
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loads in less than 500ms, even on Androids.
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Besides web development, I do other things in Python. I write GTK apps for the GNU/Linux
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desktop (not GNOME), small CLI tools and I train AIs for image recognition. I'm also
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trying to get into game development.
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I also do C++, mainly for competitive programming (in the Romanian Olympiad of Informatics,
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only C/C++ is allowed), and I'm trying to expand my knowledge of C++ to GTK and make my
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own interpreter for an object-oriented language.
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<p>
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I haven't tried Rust and Go, and I have no plans to learn them. OO (the Python and
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Smalltalk way, not the forced Java way) makes a lot of sense to me and I don't understand
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changing it for the sake of change.
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I'm also interested in electronics and robotics, but I don't have the time and money to
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get into them.
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<h2>Links</h2>
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<li><a href="mailto:root@roundabout-host.com">Send me an e-mail</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://roundabout-host.com/roundabout">Profile on roundabout-host</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/Secret-chest">GitHub</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://matrix.to/@roundabout-git:matrix.org#/@roundabout-git:matrix.org">Matrix</a></li>
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