scum.blog

about me

who am I and what is this blog?

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(that's a real picture of me)

hello („• ֊ •„)੭ my name is Jan, but I've been going by Scumble online for the last 10 years so it's what I tend to stick with. I'm a corporate developer by trade, but I love to code in my free time as well so I made my own little corner of the internet.

My online name comes from a book by Terry Pratchett. I chose it when I was a high-school freshman, and it just kind of stuck as the name I use online, so now you're stuck with the scum blog.

The point of this blog isn't just to talk about programming projects that I work on (though I suspect that to be one of the primary topics) but also my opinions on things I care about.

The projects I work on professionally tend to be very old and very established development tools, like Java, Spring, and AngularJS, so one of the reasons I made this blog was to give myself a way to practice building something in the JavaScript ecosystem and learn some new frameworks.

(I also just like to yap)

Do I like the JavaScript ecosystem? Eh, I didn't love it originally but the more I use TypeScript the more I like it. (that is until resolving promises get too involved)

I'm also the number-one boilerplate enjoyer — so what do I know

scumble@desk ~ $ fastfetch

system

os
Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
shell
zsh - Oh My Zsh

hardware

monitor
28" Odyssey G70A 4K UHD LED
resolution
3840x2160 @ 144 Hz
cpu
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
gpu
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT [Discrete]
memory
31.26 GiB total

peripherals

keyboard
HHKB Professional 2
mouse
MX Master 3s
microphone
Audio-Technica ATR1500x
headphones
Beyerdynamic DT770 (80 ohm)

desktop

de
KDE Plasma 6.4.1
wm
KWin (Wayland)
wm theme
Ant-Dark
theme
Breeze (Ant-Dark) [Qt], Breeze [GTK3]
icons
Papirus-Dark [Qt], Papirus-Dark [GTK3/4]
font
BlexMono Nerd Font (10pt)
cursor
Posy_Cursor_Black (32px)
terminal
Alacritty
editor
Zed with Vim motions

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