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1 +++ 2 title = "About" 3 description = "Jack Mordaunt" 4 date = "2025-07-10" 5 author = "Jack Mordaunt" 6 +++ 7 8 <style> 9 .australia-background { 10 position: absolute; 11 left: 0; 12 13 <!-- background: url('/images/australia.svg') no-repeat center center; --> 14 background-size: contain; /* or cover if you want to stretch it */ 15 16 width: 100vw; 17 height: 100vw; 18 19 text-align: center; 20 justify-content: center; 21 22 display: flex; 23 align-items: top; 24 padding-top: 45rem; 25 } 26 27 28 .page-content { 29 position: relative; 30 z-index: 2; 31 color: #fff; /* Adjust for contrast */ 32 max-width: 80ch; 33 } 34 </style> 35 36 <div class="australia-background"> 37 <div class="page-content"> 38 <p>I’m Jack, an Australian developer living abroad, building lean, native software in Odin and Go.</p> 39 40 <p>I care deeply about software that’s organically made and designed to be robust, efficient and promote self-sovereignty.</p> 41 42 <p>I have a particular interest in long-term software built to last decades.</p> 43 44 <p>I believe this is best achieved by having a small dependency tree and re-using modular libraries written in C where possible, which is the lowest-common denominator and what drives my interest in Odin: a C alternative built for the joy of programming.</p> 45 46 <p>That being said, my main expertise is in Go having programmed with it professionally since 2021. Along my journey I have touched a myriad of other languages: Rust, Zig, C++, Python, Ruby, C#, Objective-C, Javascript, Elixir and more.</p> 47 48 <p>I'm a versatile developer but I prefer to work on client-side software and I'm intrigued by unorthodox tech stacks.</p> 49 50 </div> 51 </div>