Thorsten Zöller

About

About Me

  • I was born in Oberhausen, Germany, where I spent the first about 20 years of my life.

  • I studied physics and did my PhD in theoretical physics. (In the – rather unlikely – event that anyone is interested in it: Here is my PhD thesis.)

  • I live in Frankfurt, Germany, with my wife and my small son.

  • I am (mostly) vegan.

  • I love freshly ground and brewed coffee.

  • I love the OpenBSD operating system (see my OpenBSD page) and the vi editor (see my vi page).

  • I strive to keep things as simple as possible in most areas of my life (one example being this website).

About This Site

This site does not serve any definite purpose. I have it just for fun, and to share things I find interesting. It is neither focused on a single topic, nor guaranteed to get updated on a regular basis.

Technically, the site is generated by employing sasg, a very simple static site generator written by myself and tailored to my needs, and which converts Asciidoc files to HTML files.[1]

This site is:

  • Plain and simple on purpose.

  • Completely static – no code is run, just plain HTML files.

  • Written entirely by a human being.

  • Hosted on OpenBSD Amsterdam and served by httpd(8) via relayd(8).


1. For quite some time, I did not even employ a site generator but hand-crafted plain HTML files. The rationale for this approach can be found here.