update about page

Author: healeycodes

pages/about.tsx

@@ -6,14 +6,18 @@ import Layout from "../components/layout";
 import Link from "next/link";
 
 export default function About() {
+  const daysSince1stJan2019 = Math.floor((new Date().getTime() - new Date("2019-01-01").getTime()) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
   return (
     <Layout title="About" description="About me.">
       <h1>About</h1>
       <main>
         <p>
-          I write software and write about software. My research interests include programming language design, compilers, JavaScript runtimes, game solvers, and running untrusted code.</p>
+          I write software and write about software. My research interests include programming language design, compilers, puzzle/game solvers, and distributed systems.</p>
         <p>
-          This <a href={siteConfig.REPO_URL}>open source</a> website is built with Next.js, and I <a href="mailto:healeycodes@gmail.com">love getting email.</a>
+          This <a href={siteConfig.REPO_URL}>open source</a> website is built with Next.js and is {daysSince1stJan2019} days old – some of the development is covered in <Link href="/notes">my notes</Link>. The very first version was built with Jekyll.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          Free free to <a href="mailto:healeycodes@gmail.com">email me</a> with any questions or comments.
         </p>
         <SpacedImage
           src={mePresenting}
@@ -26,17 +30,17 @@ export default function About() {
           style={{ borderRadius: '0.4em' }}
         />
         <p>
-          I like teaching people things that I know. I like video games, classic games (chess, scrabble, sudoku), running, and reading.
+          I like teaching people things that I know. I like video games (especially classic FPS games like Quake and Counter-Strike), classic games (chess, scrabble, sudoku), running, and reading.
         </p>
         <p>
           I am easily impressed by people and the cool stuff they build. I
           read a lot of technical blogs. If we've ever interacted,
           I've visited your website and probably think it's cool!
         </p>
-        <p>Technical books I recommend include Crafting Interpreters, and The Computational Beauty of Nature. Non-tech authors I recommend include Patricia Lockwood and Ben Lerner. In my undergrad, I mostly studied post-WWII fiction.</p>
-        <p>I prefer rainy days, I like the colder months, and I drink a lot of coffee.</p>
+        <p>Technical books I recommend include <i>Crafting Interpreters</i>, and <i>The Computational Beauty of Nature</i>. For general fiction, I recommend the authors Patricia Lockwood and Ben Lerner. For sci-fi, I recommend the <i>Dune</i> series (1-6 are amazing, 7-9 are good), and the <i>Remembrance of Earth's Past</i> trilogy. For non-fiction, I recommend <i>The Orchid Thief</i>, and <i>Nothing To Envy</i>.</p>
+        <p>I prefer rainy days, I like the colder months, and I drink a lot of coffee and diet soda.</p>
         <h2>Work</h2>
-        <p>I'm a software engineer at Vercel. Previously, I was a software engineer elsewhere.</p>
+        <p>I'm a software engineer at Vercel. Before that, I worked as a software engineer at two other companies – and before that, I was an amateur game developer and a writer.</p>
         <h2>Education</h2>
         <ul>
           <li><Link href="/my-time-at-the-recurse-center">The Recurse Center (W2'23)</Link></li>