Who am I?

Me at the start of a walk from Brno to Prague.

Hi, I am Zdenek. A twenty-something year od student at FIT BUT where I mainly engage as a member of the Students Union, mostly as a bartender at the Duck Club, however I do try to do some learning at the school from time to time as well.

My interest shift quite often, but as of writing this my main fixation is probably the concertina. A free-reed instrument which is commonly associated with pirates, even though accordion-like instruments only started being invented in the 19th century, well after the golden age of piracy, does not stop me from enjoying playing some shanties on it now though!

I also like programming and I want to learn more about SDL2 (or is SDL3 coming out now?), but I never seem to get to it :D.

My other interests include backpacking, cooking & baking, weight lifting and pirates, I would like to get into photography, but my current camera is too bad for that. I do not like tabletop games.

I am an ordained minister and a firm believer in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. For religious purposes I run the pastafarianstvi.cz website.

Why not write in czech?

I think czech is a beautiful language and I would prefer to write in czech on this site, and I might switch to it at some point in the future. But english has two main advantages: reach and ease of use.

Reach

While there currently isn't much content on this page, I intend to change that. Making the content more accessible to international audience is in my opinion only a good thing.

Ease of use

I am making a lot of assumptions about how I will contribute more text to this website, but I find writing html directly to be the easiest.

While I am aware of the czech programmers keyboard layout, and from my limited experience with it I really enjoy using it for mixed english and czech typing, especially in LaTeX, I do not have a layout set-up that I would feel comfortable switching to full time. Writing special characters like `[` is a pain in the ass on the czech layout and writing czech characters with diacritics is basically impossible on the en-us layout. So I find just writing english on us keyboard to be the easiest.

Why have a website?

While the website might currently seem utterly uninteresting and useless, there is a purpose to it: the domain!

While i do want to do some things with the site, the main reason I registered the domain is to use it for personal stuff so that I don't have to remember my IP address. Having a website on top of that to share some of my interests just makes sense to me.

Why is it so ugly?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and while I can appreciate this look is unusual, I really dig it. You are always free to make your own custom css for my site, of course. Hmm, now I am thinking about adding built-in customisation support, but that would require user settings, and having users makes no sense until theres some kind of user interaction like a forum, or article comments, or something like that. I will save that one for later.