{"kind":"page","slug":"about","title":"About","markdown":"# About\n\nI'm Matthias Jordan. I'm a photographer and solutions engineer in Southern California. This site is my cozy corner of the web. It is an archive, not a portfolio. Nothing here is for sale.\n\nPhotography comes first. I make long exposures of the ocean, aerial and drone work in California, Hawaii, and Baja, and snapshots with film cameras and my iPhone. I also make generative experiments trained on my own images. Some work is collected into series with process notes. Some is just a photograph and a date.\n\nFor work, I'm a solutions engineer. I also build things for the web. That includes AT Protocol tools, Cloudflare Workers, small AI hardware projects, and Farfield. Farfield is the self-hosted, content-addressed backend serving this site. I write about what I build, including the parts that do not work.\n\nI cook, too. The recipes here are things I actually make. They use the tabular format from *Cooking for Engineers*, with ingredients on the left and each step running across the page.\n\nI want a web that's open and personal. I own my data, make handmade sites, and build in the open. There is no account to make and no newsletter to join. This is simply where I keep my work.\n\n## Elsewhere\n\n- [Glass](https://glass.photo/iam): @iam\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/iammatthias): @iammatthias\n- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/iammatthias): @iammatthias\n- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/iammatthias.com): @iammatthias.com\n- [Farcaster](https://farcaster.xyz/iammatthias): @iammatthias\n- [Instagram](https://instagram.com/iammatthias): @iammatthias\n\n## This site\n\nBuilt in Rust with GPUI, drawn to a WebGPU canvas, and served by a Cloudflare Worker reading a self-hosted Farfield backend. Content is content-addressed, every page has a markdown twin, and the whole thing is open source. See [developers](/developers) for the machine-readable surfaces, or [now](/now) for what I'm up to lately.\n"}