commit 1ff69c402e1492b0665670d965b47ad2bee279a7
parent a9269565066ecd3ac892ecbf4516437df43169f8
Author: Jake Bauer <jbauer@paritybit.ca>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 03:07:31 -0400
Rewrite bits of home page for brevity and clarity
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1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pages/home.md b/pages/home.md
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@
[//]: #
-This is the website of Jake Bauer, a student of computer science ([read more
-about me here](/about-me)). I created this website as a place for me to post my
-projects, guides, configuration tips and tricks, rants and essays, and all
-manner of little things that I find interesting or want to share with the world.
+This is the personal website of me, Jake Bauer, a student of computer science
+([read more about me here if you want](/about-me)). I created this website as a
+place for me to post my projects, guides, configuration tips and tricks, and all
+manner of things that I find interesting or want to share with the world.
-If you are interested and have the time, check out the stuff below. There may
-be something that interests you.
+If you are interested, check out the links in the navigation pane or the links
+below. There may be something that interests you.
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@@ -35,19 +35,22 @@ Back to Firefox from Qutebrowser</a>
### What is a Parity Bit?
It is a bit (in the 1's and 0's sense) used in checking for errors in digital
-transmissions. It is the simplest form of error detection in this respect.
-Wikipedia has a great article on [Parity
+transmissions. It is the simplest form of error detection in this respect being
+only able to detect one error. Wikipedia has [a great article on Parity
bits](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_bit) if you would like to learn more.
-### What Can You Find Here?
+I chose this name for my domain because it was the best sounding name that I was
+able to come up with. It wasn't too long, it represented my interests quite
+well, and the name was available with a ".ca" suffix. Naming things is hard.
-While I compile a big list of the different things to find here, have a poke
-around the links in the navigation panel to the right (or above if you're using
-a small screen or CSS-less browser).
+### Disclaimer:
-This website is self hosted on physical hardware that I own. Therefore, don't
-expect big-tech levels of availability. If you consider anything on this site
-worth more than a simple bookmark, you should probably download it (or you could
-recompile the pages yourself through cloning the git repository). I will try to
-post a large banner across all of the pages when the website is scheduled to go
-down. However, not all downtime is planned.
+This website is self hosted on hardware that I own and manage myself. If you
+consider anything on this site worth more than a simple bookmark, you should
+probably save it (or you could recompile the pages yourself through cloning the
+git repository). I will try to post a large banner across all of the pages when
+the website is scheduled to go down but not all downtime is planned and the
+website will sometimes restart on its own to apply security updates.
+
+You can see the uptime statistics of this website on the [About
+Site](about-site) page at the bottom.
