Reason

The result of unending curiousity.

This is me at my best and worst. This is a public logbook. This is my own content.

History

This collection of webpages started to exist when I came to MITERS in the year 2011. The people of MITERS introduced me to electronics, an experience more thrilling and intoxicating than I ever could've imagined. At MITERS, blogging was a way to document and share things that we made, so I blogged.

• 2011 -- https://totallyharmless.blogspot.com (Blogger)
• 2013 -- http://nkirkby.scripts.mit.edu/nk (Wordpress, hosted by SIPB at MIT, defunct)
• 2015 -- http://nkirkby.net (Wordpress hosted by GoDaddy 🤮)
• 2018 -- https://nicjam.es (jekyll, then my own static site generator, hosted on AWS)

How it's made

This site is compiled with my own static site generator (why?!) and hosted with AWS. The source files are in a git repository that syncs to dropbox. 🙃

Influence

Site design (or lack thereof) is influenced by Gwern Branwyn's long content, and Jorge Israel Peña's outstanding notetaking. Also Dane Kouttron's site which serves as a very effective engineering journal.