About
This site
This is the second website I have built; the first is still available on Github. This site emerged as a ‘Keep up with the Jones’ sort of project. My previous website was . . . ugly. This one is much nicer, although for now it lacks much of the content.
See also The Blog of Charles Daniels, who inspired me to create this site.
I plan to update this site with news of my exploits.
Me
I am a student studying Computer Science at the University of South Carolina.
I’m interested in cyber security, a minor in math, and various parts of the world of computing.
I’m originally from Tampa, FL, but my parents wanted me to
Get out of this backwater.
– Jeremy Nelson, September 2016
Causes I support
- The GNU Project
- Open Source Initiative
- Internet privacy
- Renewable energy
- Electoral reform
- Rehabilitation, reducing recidivism
Things I find interesting
- The Culture series
- Chaos Theory and The Chaos Chronicles
- Formal logic
- POSIX computer systems
- Web pages
- Compilers and Programming languages]
- Unsong
FAQs
These questions are not frequently asked. I normally get questions like
- How was your break?
- Hey, how do you do this computing assignment? I’m confused.
These are the questions I wish people would ask.
How can I learn more about computers?
Lots of ways! I have a list of links just for this. The basic ways:
More FAQs about this here.
That’s a nice profile picture! Where was it taken?
How can I start my own website?
I recommend using GitHub pages. I have a tutorial for how to use Jekyll, the templating manager on the Pages backend.