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diff --git a/haunt/pages/about.sxml b/haunt/pages/about.sxml index f914ed3..ee5047e 100644 --- a/haunt/pages/about.sxml +++ b/haunt/pages/about.sxml @@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ (p "My name's Jakob, and I'm a self-taught " ,(hyperlink "https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html" "free software") ,(hyperlink "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture#Definition" " hacker") - ". I'm into formal methods, functional programming, computer security, and lifting + ". I'm into computer security, software verification, functional programming, and lifting weights.") (p "That's the short version. I have a longer biography available " ,(hyperlink "/pages/about-complete.html" "here") ".") - (p "If you have sent an email to an address of mine + (p "If you've sent an email to an address of mine ending in 'sdf.lonestar.org' between January 2nd, 2020 and now, I have not -received it. SDF has discontinued mail service on that domain. As such, " +received it. SDF has discontinued mail service on that domain. Accordingly, " ,(hyperlink "https://paste.sr.ht/%7Ejakob/18c048600c26d125d6d743e6d5b44db852573242" "I have a new PGP key.")) (p "To the best of my knowledge, access to this website is not being blocked by any foreign government. Should this change, I maintain mirrors on " diff --git a/org/pages/about-complete.org b/org/pages/about-complete.org index 720860a..4ae03bd 100644 --- a/org/pages/about-complete.org +++ b/org/pages/about-complete.org @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ * About me. -My name is Jakob Kreuze (/ˈdʒeɪkəbˈkɹuz/ and /ˈjaːkɔp ˈkʁɔʏ̯tsə/ are both acceptable pronunciations). I'm a 23 year-old living in Greater Boston. I graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 2021 and am now simultaneously working full-time and pursuing a Master's degree at Brown University. Officially, I'm a "computer scientist." +My name is Jakob Kreuze (/ˈdʒeɪkəbˈkɹuz/ and /ˈjaːkɔp ˈkʁɔʏ̯tsə/ are both acceptable pronunciations). I'm a 23 year-old living in Greater Boston. I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts in 2021, and my M.Sc. in Computer Science from Brown University in 2024. Nowadays, I work full-time as a civil servant. -I work primarily with the design of secure systems. My research interests are formal methods, cryptography, distributed computing, symbolic execution, and signals processing. Of these, cryptography is what I worked on as an undergraduate. The experience was gratifying and greatly influenced my career path. +I work primarily with the design of secure systems. My research interests are formal methods, distributed computing, symbolic execution, and signals processing. I did my undergraduate research in cryptography; the experience was gratifying and greatly influenced my career path, but I'm not especially interested in it these days. My free time not spent on chores or being with friends and family is spent working on personal projects, which are outlined [[https://jakob.space/pages/about.html][here]]. @@ -26,19 +26,17 @@ Nowadays, my favorite programming languages are Scheme, Haskell, and Rust. Depen Amid my early years with computer programming, I was briefly introduced to web development and, in particular, PHP. The language has a reputation for the ease with which one can introduce security vulnerabilities, and as such, the book I was using to teach myself at the time expatiated about SQL injection, going so far as to walk the reader through an example. At eleven years old, this piqued my interest, and I soon sought out as much material on computer security as I could, showing my friends what I could do on [[https://www.hackthissite.org/][HackThisSite]]. - I began playing capture-the-flag when I was in high school and came across LiveOverflow's [[https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PLhixgUqwRTjxglIswKp9mpkfPNfHkzyeN][early videos]], which inspired me to play in the (now defunct) [[https://ctf-x.github.io/][CTF(x)]]. I was a team of one until I started playing with [[https://0xbu.com/blog/][0xBU]]. I was still in high school, only 16, but I noticed them on the leader-board. They were just a train ride away, so I reached out to ask if I could show up to their meetings. They said yes, so I spent most of my weekends downtown, getting good at pwning. In my university years, I was an e-board member of the [[https://umasscybersec.org/][UMass Cybersecurity Club]]: playing for their CTF team, and putting serious work into the CTF's we hosted. -*** Permaculture - -My parents always had a garden when I was growing up, and I took to the idea of self-resiliency: being able to grow one's own food. I have luck when I try to grow things -- perhaps I have some natural intuition from observing my mother's gardening all these years -- but I am not as dedicated to it as I am to my other interests. I'm happy to throw a few tomato seeds in the ground and weed every once in a while, reaping the benefits of delicious red sauce for pasta and pizza. - *** Lifting weights I exercise every day, barring extreme circumstances. +#+CAPTION: Current body as of April 13, 2023. +[[./cbt-2023-04-13.jpg]] + Sports didn't interest me when I was younger. I was signed up for soccer, and basketball, and many other after-school sports programs, but nothing stuck. At 13, I joined the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Air_Patrol][Civil Air Patrol]], which changed my prior attitudes toward fitness. Now I had to pass fitness tests to promote, and I had to be in-shape for the emergency response work I was doing, so I picked up a regular exercise routine. I began with body-weight exercises and running outside, and I fell in love with it. Pushing yourself to exhaustion -- until you can barely lift your arms -- is addicting. But I was soon bored with calisthenics and begged my parents for a gym membership. I posed it as something I could do with my dad, and that's how I spent my evenings in high school. @@ -53,6 +51,16 @@ A given day is cardio xor weightlifting. It's rare that I do both on the same da At the moment, I'm running the third of Jeff Nippard's "Powerbuilding System" programs, after having an exceptionally good experience with the first two. +*** Food and Permaculture + +In spite of my deceptively trim figure, I love to cook and eat, especially when it involves unfamiliar cuisines. "Gourmand" is a term I often use when describing myself. + +I was fortunate that most of my meals growing up were homemade. It was much healthier than the alternative, and I was able to learn a lot from my parents in the kitchen. I started taking on that chore in high school with the aim of making things less stressful for my parents. Nowadays, it's practically a hobby for me. I love learning new skills and techniques, and making delicious meals to share with my friends and family. + +I especially enjoy dishes from Africa and South Asia. + +Having an adventurous palate, I'm also interested in permaculture, because it enables me to enjoy produce I would otherwise have a difficult time acquiring (like besobela, or Carolina reapers). My parents always had a garden when I was growing up, and I really enjoyed the idea of self-resiliency that's embedded in the hobby. It's been a bit difficult to grow much on my own because I currently live in an apartment, but some day I'll fulfill my dream of having a huge and varied garden just like theirs. + *** Music I don't really play or write music at the moment. |