content/pages/why.rst

:Title: Why
:Category: About
:Heading: Who am I?
:Subheading: And why this blog?
:author: David Douard

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Why
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When I am not in front of my laptop doing some software related stuff,
I do sometimes find the energy to do things with my own hands... I've
enjoyed to hack eletronics since I am 12 or something like that. At 14
I had a scope in my room. I also started to hack my Amstrad CPC-6128
back then. Beginning to write code, first in BASIC, then in Z-80
assembly code.

I've never made something really serious in electronics, mostly
repairing stuff, built my own Nelson Pass hifi power amplifier, but I
finally made my life hacking computers. The discovery of the FOSS
movement changed me, and is now an essential part of my life.

More recently, I began to play with more substential
hardware. Starting with a very small chinese milling machine (a Vario
BF16) and a cheap inverter welding machine, I began to learn (mostly
by myself) some elements of machining.

Then I had the opportunity to acquire and install (thanks to my
sister offering me a part of a newly acquired grange to welcome a
couple of more serious machines) a few machinist toys I am, very
slowly, reconditionning.

I'd like to try to write kind-of journal of my experiments with my
"grown-up toys", being electronics or machinist related. And maybe
some other subjects as well, who knows?

Who
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My name is David Douard, I live in Paris, France, and work as a software
developer for the `Software Heritage`_ project.

You may contact me on:

- email: david.douard@sdfa3.org
- mastodon: https://social.logilab.org/@david
- matrix/element: @david:sdfa3.org
- twitter: https://twitter.com/douardda


.. _`Software Heritage`: https://softwareheritage.org