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    <h1>About Me</h1>
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      Hi, I'm Jacob. I'm a current undergraduate computer science student at the
      University of Manitoba and infrastructure developer at the National
      Microbiology Lab. I'm planning on continuing on to do a master's degree at
      the U of M as well.
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      My big interests outside of computers these days are tea and fountain
      pens. I also am really into literature, but haven't been able to find the
      time to read all that much as of late.
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      In terms of computers, the hardware I'm most interested in is older video
      game consoles (which I want to eventually start some projects with) and
      microcontrollers. I like being able to fully understand how the hardware
      works which becomes a challenge for more complicated devices.
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      In a similar vein, I like being able to understand the software that I use
      which is why I like using free (as in freedom) software. Emacs is my text
      editor of choice although I also use (neo)vim on remote machines (and at
      work due to some incompatibilities with the available version of Emacs and
      my configuration). My language of choice for personal projects is C. I
      enjoy the limited number of keywords in the language as it allows me to
      keep the full language inside of my head and allow me to focus on writing
      the algorithms, although Python is nice for rapid prototyping. Go is a
      nice middle-ground that I choose sometimes when I want faster code than
      Python or a stronger typing system. Another language that I enjoy is Rust,
      although I don't find myself writing it very often.
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