Hi! I’m Peter, and you’re on my homepage.
Archaic it may sound, but it’s in league with the age of the site: I’ve had it in some format since 1999. The domain changed, the layout changed, the design changed, I changed, but I always has a home on the internet, hence the phrase. Unfortunately the oldest version copy I was able to recover is from 2002 - version control would have been useful, but as a 14 year old, I had no idea it existed.
My web experience came from interest, and it’s completely self-taught; everything I know about HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, etc, is from books, online tutorials, and due to the fantastic, open world behind the web, due to the fact that view-source existed since the beginning and you could shamelessly copy and learn from other sites out there.
I’m trying to encourage everyone to do the same. You website can look the way you want it; it can’t be easily taken away, and you can post whatever you want (unless it’s actually a crime, in which case, don’t). This is not the case with “social media”.
About me
I’m from Hungary, living and working in Cambridge, UK, with frequent travels to Amsterdam, and Budapest.
Linux sysadmin (official title is system administrator, actual work is much closer to SRE, and if you want my CV, it’s over here) by day, photographer when travelling, martial art practicioner on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings. Sometimes I tinker with linux and embedded things, and write my findings down on this website. I gave up on social media and retreated to a version of the internet before MySpace, and I’m trying to encourage everyone to do the same.
You can find me lurking in #indieweb or by any of the contact methods in the footer.
I’m happily married to the lady who shares more of my interests, that I thought possible.
