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<h1>About Me</h1>
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<p>One obvious advantage [of lisp syntax] is that there
hardly *is* any syntax. You can learn enough Lisp
syntax to write useful programs in about ten minutes.</p>
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Mark J. Dominus
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If you are a prospective employer, you can view
my <abbr class="cv">CV</abbr>
<a href="https://cv.thomasvoss.com">here</a>.
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<h2>Who Am I</h2>
<p>
I’m Thomas. A self-taught software developer from Brazil and
the Netherlands who grew up in the Middle East. I started to
code at the age of 9, writing batch scripts <x-ref>1</x-ref> on
my schools Windows 7 machines to toggle folder visibility with a
password. That became necessary because the
genius <abbr class="it">IT</abbr> guys at our school decided we
should all save our work onto a
shared <abbr class="nas">NAS</abbr> where everyone has
read+write access to everyone elses work. <em>How could that
ever go wrong.</em>
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Shoutouts
to <a href="https://www.instructables.com/member/Prof.%20Pickle/"
>Prof. Pickle on Instructables</a> by the way. Most of his
stuff seems to have been deleted all these years later, but
he was the guy I learnt to code from.
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These days my interests lie mostly
in <abbr class="cli">CLI</abbr> development. I take a great joy
in writing simple yet highly effective tools to solve problems
not only in the easiest way, but also in the most extensible way
possible. I think my batch file-renaming
utility <em>mmv</em> <a href="/prj/mmv">does a great job at
that</a>.
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That being said, I also have a great interest in operating
systems, shells, and really anything that could be considered
remotely low-level. I’m not totally afraid of front-end
development, although I <em>did</em> write this site in plain
<abbr class="html">HTML</abbr> and <abbr class="css">CSS</abbr>
because modern <abbr class="html">HTML</abbr> frameworks are the
worst excuses for software I have ever seen.
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As for my religious- and political beliefs, let’s make those
clear:
<ul>
<li>Spaces should never be used for indentation</li>
<li>Tabs should never be used for alignment</li>
<li>Emacs is better than Vim</li>
<li>
The dominance of VSCode is an embarrassment to our
industry
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<li>
Object-oriented programming, Java, JavaScript,
and <abbr class="xml">XML</abbr> were all massive
mistakes
</li>
<li>C is far superior to C++</li>
<li>Rust is not gods chosen language (even if it’s pretty cool)</li>
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