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1 | :Title: Why |
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3 | :Heading: Who am I? |
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4 | :Subheading: And why this blog? |
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5 | :author: David Douard |
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8 | Why |
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11 | When I am not in front of my laptop doing some software related stuff, |
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12 | I do sometimes find the energy to do things with my own hands... I've |
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13 | enjoyed to hack eletronics since I am 12 or something like that. At 14 |
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14 | I had a scope in my room. I also started to hack my Amstrad CPC-6128 |
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15 | back then. Beginning to write code, first in BASIC, then in Z-80 |
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16 | assembly code. |
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18 | I've never made something really serious in electronics, mostly |
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19 | repairing stuff, built my own Nelson Pass hifi power amplifier, but I |
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20 | finally made my life hacking computers. The discovery of the FOSS |
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21 | movement changed me, and is now an essential part of my life. |
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23 | More recently, I began to play with more substential |
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24 | hardware. Starting with a very small chinese milling machine (a Vario |
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25 | BF16) and a cheap inverter welding machine, I began to learn (mostly |
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26 | by myself) some elements of machining. |
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28 | Then I had the opportunity to acquire and install (thanks to my |
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29 | sister offering me a part of a newly acquired grange to welcome a |
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30 | couple of more serious machines) a few machinist toys I am, very |
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31 | slowly, reconditionning. |
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33 | I'd like to try to write kind-of journal of my experiments with my |
65 | 34 | "grown-up toys", being electronics or machinist related. And maybe |
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35 | some other subjects as well, who knows? |
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40 | My name is David Douard, I live in Paris, France, and work as a software |
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41 | developer for the `Software Heritage`_ project. |
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43 | You may contact me on: |
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45 | - email: david.douard@sdfa3.org |
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46 | - mastodon: https://social.logilab.org/@david |
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47 | - matrix/element: @david:sdfa3.org |
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48 | - twitter: https://twitter.com/douardda |
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52 | .. _`Software Heritage`: https://softwareheritage.org |