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{{ resize_image(image="../static/images/Photo of Wesley Moore.jpg", width=1600, quality=60, alt="Photo of me against a Boab tree in Broome, Western Australia") }}
Hi, I'm Wes (he/him). I'm a software developer originally from Melbourne,
Australia. I now live on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. I like open-source
software and warm weather. I enjoy tinkering with computers, ranging from small
microcontrollers up to large servers and the operating systems that run upon
them. I like to take photos around my home and places I visit. The better ones
end up on [Flickr].
[Arch Linux] is my primary desktop operating system, with the [COSMIC] desktop.
However, I have migrated to [Chimera Linux] on my laptop and plan to eventually
do the same on my desktop. I detailed my desktop computing stack in more detail
in the post [Tech Stack 2024](@/posts/2024/tech-stack/index.md).
The server hosting this website runs [Alpine Linux] and is hosted by
[Vultr]<sup>(affiliate link)</sup>. I've written more about my personal server
infrastructure in
[Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker][my server].
This site is built with the [Zola] static site compiler and [the source
code][src] is published on GitHub. I have some other websites as well: you can
read more about my operating system adventures on [bitcannon.net]. I maintain a
custom-built link blog at [linkedlist.org](https://linkedlist.org/). Finally, I
have a retro-themed website hosted at home on a LattePanda single board
computer. It's a lot of fun to work on and is an ode to late 90s and early
2000s websites and the computers we used to make
them:<br><http://home.wezm.net/~wmoore/>.
[{{ float_image(image="../static/images/keyboards.jpg", float="right", width=128, alt="Photo of my keyboards") }}](../images/keyboards.jpg)
I prefer typing on mechanical keyboards. I have a small collection in a range
of sizes. Almost all are fully programmable. My current favourite is a [WK870]
with Gateron G Pro 2.0 brown switches. This keyboard is not programmable, so I
use [keyd] to do low-level key-mapping on Linux. You can see
[my configuration][keyd.conf] in my [dotfiles repo][dotfiles].
[Rust] is my preferred programming language. I am fairly active in the Rust
community and used to curate [Read Rust], a website that collected interesting
posts about Rust.
[Alpine Linux]: https://alpinelinux.org/
[Arch Linux]: https://www.archlinux.org/
[COSMIC]: https://system76.com/cosmic/
[bitcannon.net]: https://bitcannon.net/
[Chimera Linux]: https://chimera-linux.org/
[my server]: https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/02/alpine-linux-docker-infrastructure/
[Read Rust]: https://readrust.net/
[Rust]: https://www.rust-lang.org/
[WK870]: https://www.keebmonkey.com/en-au/products/wk870
[Vultr]: https://www.vultr.com/?ref=7903263
[Zola]: https://www.getzola.org/
[src]: https://github.com/wezm/wezm.net
[Flickr]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wezm/
[keyd]: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
[dotfiles]: https://github.com/wezm/dotfiles
[keyd.conf]: https://github.com/wezm/dotfiles/blob/master/keyd.conf
## Contact
See the footer for my email and social media links.
## Credits
This website would not be possible without the generous work of others:
* [Zola] static site compiler.
* [Manrope](https://www.gent.media/manrope) font.