# About Me (and my blog)

Hi.

[insert generic greeting here]

This is Frederick Yin, born 2003-03-06, he/they, connected to the internet
for memes, computer stuff, electronics, and catpics. I have 3k+ catpics on
my disk. Go figure.

I live in Shanghai, UTC+8:00. To other humans, I speak Mandarin and
English. To silicon, I speak Python and C.

I am an undergrad in electrical and computer <del>engineering</del>
exorcism, but the status quo is I can't do shit. And no, I don't know Rust
*or* Haskell. I don't own an oscilloscope, but this is expected to change.
I do have a ThinkPad that runs Arch Linux though. Yes, it's full of
stickers, why do you ask.

Out of all things unrelated to sex, what I enjoy most are (in no
particular order):

- science fiction
- thinking about how cool space really is
- twenty øne piløts
- collecting catpics and laughing uncontrollably to the best ones
- plushies (yes this includes blåhaj)
- playing air drums
- downloading papers I do not understand
- talking about how Alexandra Elbakyan is a hero and capitalism must be
  burned to the ground
- impulse starting a new side project

That's about it. Stay hydrated, don't overclock yourself, and take care.

My PGP key is [3E46 7B22 82D7 2858](https://fkfd.me/static/fkfd.asc).

## About my blog

### Source

- [self-hosted cgit](https://git.fkfd.me/blog.git/)
- [git.sr.ht](https://git.sr.ht/~fkfd/blog)

### Syndication

- [Atom feed](/feed/atom.xml)

### License

All blogposts are [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
unless otherwise stated.

### Contact

- [Mastodon](https://mastodon.technology/@fakefred)

### Nobody builds their blog with MkDocs. What's wrong with you

Tired of social media buttons and fancy animations that come at the cost
of computer juice, I quit. So here you are, in a static-site blog
generated with MkDocs (a documentation engine written in Python, like
Sphinx). I call this "Blogumentation".

Here is a list of tools that I ruled out:

- [__ssg6__](https://www.romanzolotarev.com/ssg.html) — A static site
  generator written in shell. Extremely simple yet versatile. Sadly, it'll
  take forever for me to settle on a template or CSS, and, given so much
  privilege, I will most probably break everything.
- A self-hosted pastebin. The links would be a mess, albeit short.
- HTML+CSS from scratch. Same as ssg6.
- Sphinx. It graduated with a `.rst` degree, but who uses rsts these days.
- Hugo. I didn't want a Go environment on my machine. (Update: Joke's on
  me, I installed go later and wrote a bit of it. But still no.)
- Hexo, Jekyll, etc: I didn't want a Node.js/Ruby environment, and I mean
  it this time. Keep them away.

## Debloated

You will not find any of these in my blogposts, as long as I am in control:

- Advertisements
- Analytics
- JavaScript

Last updated: 2022-05-03