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).
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.
This site is:
Plain and simple on purpose.
Generated by sasg from these sources. sasg is a very simple static site generator which converts Asciidoc files to HTML files, written by myself and tailored to my needs. (For quite some time, I did not even employ a site generator but hand-crafted plain HTML files. See here for the rationale for this approach.)
Completely static – no code is run, just plain HTML files.
Written entirely by a human being.
Devoid of ads, tracking, and cookies.
Hosted on OpenBSD Amsterdam and served by httpd(8) via relayd(8).
An Atom feed for this site is available under /atom.xml.
E-Mail: thorsten@thorstenzoeller.com
Mastodon: @thorstenzoeller@exquisite.social
I love hearing from people!