The key points about the term ananthropic can be summarized as follows:
In the context of this website and its name, I have decided to use the word ananthropic to represent what I hope to achieve for myself: a space where to collect ideas, texts, code, images, and other representations of my thoughts which, by acting as a mirror, can help me span a more objective perspective on my own thinking processes.
A more detailed discussion about the etymology and definition of the word can be found in this wiki article. Feel free to check it out.
This website is meant to be a place where I aspire to store, review, and share thoughts, ideas, knowledge, information, code, and mostly written-form content. As I experiment more with writing, and as I learn more about web accessibility and staticly-generated websites, I hope to grow this little corner of the internet I can call my own.
As of the time of initial writing, I have designed this website with two basic sections: a blog where I hope to post more informal or personal posts on general ideas and thoughts, and a wiki where I hope to collect more structured and interlinked articles.
Shortly after becoming a frequent user on Mastodon (part of the Fediverse), I encountered Louie Mantia's blog post titled Make a Damn Website, which motivated me in large part to make and host my own site.
The design and implementation of this website was inspired by Devine Lu Linvega's website and wiki xxiivv.com, which I became exposed to through someone's Toot on Mastodon. Their website is an absolute masterpiece, which I can only describe as the most organized and aesthetically pleasing rabbit hole I have ever been down through.
This website also aspires to actively participate in xxiivv's webring, which attempts to "[...] inspire artists & developers to build their websites and share traffic amongst each other. [...]". I guess time will tell whether this site meets their requirements for a webring pull request.
This site is built using 11ty, a simple framework for statically-generated websites. A statically-generated website is a site that is built using a software engine (e.g. 11ty, Jekyll, Next.js, Hugo, Pelican, etc.) that takes content from input text files (e.g. Markdown, reStructuredText, JSON, etc.), and generates static HTML web pages.
By static, it is meant that the website's content is generated ahead of time (before being published or served) and remains unchanged (until it is updated and re-generated). This is in opposition to dynamic websites which can generate or mutate its content on the fly (e.g. most modern websites, platforms, and online applications).
Once generated by the Static Site Generator (SSG) engine, the website is comprised of solely static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files: this means a backend server won't be needed in order to serve the website and its content! This has interesting benefits such as: 1) fast load times, since all the content is already there; and 2) easy maintainability, since all content is originally produced using simple text files.
This website is built using a custom 11ty project template, which is opensource and free for all to use and customize. This site lives on a (private) git repository, which is linked to a Netlify account. Netlify is configured to automatically build and deploy this website whenever I push updates to my Github repository. I am currently using Netlify's free plan, which allows me 100GB of bandwidth (up/down data transers) and 300 build-minutes (time it takes them to generate my website) per month, restricted to a single website, with a single concurrent build. In short, more than enough capabilities to maintain this site running for effectively $0 (not accounting for yearly domain name costs, around $12/year).
I am a Data Scientist and Systems Engineer interested in applied Machine Learning systems, predictive modeling, and hydroinformatics. I am passionate about computers and software, and I have been an avid GNU/Linux user since around 2005. Fluent in Python and R; proficient in C/C++ and BASH. I am an Emacs enthusiast.
I am knowledgeable about networks, telecommunications, systems administration, Internet-of-Things, and Software-Defined Radio. My hobbies include, but are not limited to: opensource software, playing musical instruments, music production, chess, and amateur radio.
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