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+# About Me
+
+My name is Nathan, I'm an engineering psychologist by training, and a systems
+engineer by trade.
+
+I've had the good fortune to work professionally with rust for some time, as
+well as some other oddball languages like Haskell and F# back in the day. I
+current work for a state university's disability support center doing pretty
+mundane, but worthwhile webdev work.
+
+I've previously worked in, and greatly enjoy working with, distributed systems.
+I also have deep interests in cryptography, authenticated data structures,
+archival, and formal verification methods.
+
+Much of my recent hobby programming has revolved around a neat little language
+called [Idris2](https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris2), which is notable for
+revolving around dependent types while still being programmer focused rather
+than theorem proving focused. Dependent Typing has a lot of potential benefits
+for normal every day programmers, from being able to more easily express
+constraints in the type system to more easily getting the type system out of the
+way when you need to without losing its benefits, and you can expect to see a
+lot of programmer oriented content on dependent types on this blog.
+
+## My Projects
+
+### Rust
+
+I don't do hobby work in rust very much anymore, but I've been around the
+ecosystem and still kick around in some rust spaces.
+
+You may remember me from my work on
+[Asuran](https://sr.ht/~thatonelutenist/Asuran/), which has been on indefinite
+hiatus for a while now. Rust's type system's relative lack of power,
+particularly in the area of preventing common cryptography bugs without becoming
+overly verbose or relying on the library programmer to pinky promise to uphold
+their own invariants was a big motivator for me moving away from rust, and I
+hope to eventually pick Asuran back up some day and rewrite it in Idris or some
+other fun new language.
+
+### Idris 2
+
+I've written a few libraries and utilities for Idris 2 already:
+
+- [rope](https://git.sr.ht/~thatonelutenist/idris2-rope)
+
+  A sized rope data structure for text manipulation
+
+- [Structures](https://git.sr.ht/~thatonelutenist/Structures)
+
+  A collection of implementations of useful data structures
+
+- [iutils](https://git.stranger.systems/Idris/iutils-raku)
+
+  A collection of prototype tools for working with Idris projects. Currently
+  provides comment-based unit testing capability. Currently written in Raku, I
+  hope to eventually rewrite this in idris.
+
+### Books
+
+- [Idris by Highly Contrived Example](https://static.stranger.systems/idris-by-contrived-example/)
+
+  A very work in progress project to explore functional programming and
+  dependent typing concepts by solving every advent of code problem in one big
+  literate Idris project, only taking small steps in understanding with each new
+  day.