Introduction
My name is Herwin Bozet, I'm an experienced developer with extensive experience in PureBasic, Python, Java, VBA; and intermediate knowledge in C, Win32 APIs, embedded systems and general web development.
I've been programming for about 10 years now, and for the last 5 years I've been actively working on applying that experience to a variety of projects with the aim of helping programmers and people in their day-to-day life.
NibblePoker is, in essence, a simple moniker and the front-end for most of my public-focused work.
It houses all my work made and tailored for usage by other people.
This entire website, as well as all my work for it and other personal projects, is completely open-source and available under permissive OSI approved licenses.
All of it is maintained, developed and expanded in my free time with the occasional help from people in the open-source community.
Core tenets
TODO
Future plans
It is planned to turn NibblePoker into a SPRL in a couple years if everything goes as planned.
This would allow me to centralize many things and invest properly in my targetted fields to achieve my goals.
The goal would be to create a small sustainable local business that offers a wide range of products and solutions covering IoT devices, programming, and technological independence ; All while including the required software and hardware components often lacking in such products and solutions.
Ultimately, all this work and research would be made available to the public under open-source licenses, enabling anyone who wishes to learn, reuse, and resell open-source products, to do so in a similar way as companies like Adafruit do.
Financing
This website, as well as the surrounding infrastructure, was made to cost as little as possible while not being reliant on any censor-happy companies.
Following my core tenets, I also wanted to retain some sort of "technological sovereignty", and therefore refuse to support or use companies that actively fight against legal free speech.
The details of the operating costs are provided below to illustrate the low price of such independence.
And for those of you who are more motivated, I hope to inspire you to at least try this kind of activity.
It may seem daunting at first, but for a fraction of the cost presented here, and with a bit of motivation, you can already accomplish a lot of things and gain valuable knowledge for a world as interconnected as ours.
Service | Yearly Cost |
---|---|
.lu domain | 17.00 € |
.com domain | 14.50 € |
European reverse-proxy | 14.50 € |
American reverse-proxy | 13.00 € |
Electricity | ±30.00 € |
Yearly Cost: | ±89.00 € |
Equipment | Cost |
---|---|
NanoPi R4S | ±80.00 € |
Local storage | ±10.00 € |
Total Cost: | ±90.00 € |
The main ISP bill isn't accounted for since this could run off some random public Wi-Fi.