Me

I’m Jeremy Carder; a Canadian IT professional with a passion for building efficient systems, solving complex problems and advocating for open-source software. My current full-time vocation is providing technical support and maintainance primarily for software but also hardware infrastructure in the public sector.

In my free time you can catch me drinking black coffee (pure, as it was intended to be), pumping iron, strumming my six-string and working on my homelab.

This website

History

I started jeremycarder.ca in Fall 2022 but I’ve had a personal website since the start of highschool.

My original website that I hosted before 2022 was mainly to aid in learning about the web and didn’t serve much of a purpose - I thought it was cool to have a website though!

I host jeremycarder.ca as an easy way for people to contact me directly, a place where I can share my portfolio and projects I am working and where I can experiment with new web technologies. I think the internet is at its best when each of us has a piece of it, whether that is your own personal portfolio website or popular blog with a following.

In late January 2024, after a spur of the moment decision I decided I wanted to completely redesign the site to have a more minimalist style. This is the current iteration.

Technical

This website uses the Hugo static site generator with my own custom theme (inspired by similar minimalist themes). The site leverages GitLab’s continuous delivery pipeline so as soon as I push my changes it automatically builds the site for production and is in the production environment in about 15 seconds. The only problem with this is you can’t run any dynamic or server-side code, but that is currently not needed.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my piece of the internet, see you around!