OrbitalMartian

About

This page tells you about the martian who does this and the site itself.

👽 The Author

Hi, I’m CJ. I go by OrbitalMartian online. I’m a martian orbiting Earth, observing the chaos. This martian likes tech, FOSS, gaming and art. If I were a human from Earth, I would be from the UK. I am an enjoyer of videogames, a tinkerer of Linux and work in a school as an administrator.

I write here anything and everything that comes to my mind, whenever I feel like writing. I often write about tech, Linux, gaming and art. I also try to write week notes and monthly reviews when I remember.

My current username originally came from when I played Apex Legends Mobile where I had to auto-generate a name. I saw a couple as I generated and merged them together into OrbitalMartian. I also have an interest in space and aviation, which fits right into the name. I have previously been known as LinuxGamer and a variety of other usernames before that.

🖥️ Devices

I use Linux on one of my laptops (an old 2016 Lenovo Ideapad 110), and my current distro is Arch Linux. I am currently using KDE Plasma. I am always switching desktop environments & window managers but the ones I always end up flipping back to are bswpm, KDE, Sway - though I have dabbled with DWM, Gnome, Budgie, Hyprland, Niri, i3, QTile, and most other DE/WM’s.

My gaming laptop runs Windows 11, purely because it’s what it came with and it has an Nvidia GPU inside, and I don’t feel like messing around with GPU drivers.

My current smartphone is a Google Pixel 11 running Android 17.

👨‍💻 Hobbies & Interests

📰 The Website

This website is built with Jekyll, with Readable CSS, by Benjamin Hollon.

The source code is hosted on Codeberg and deployed on Vercel Polymaths Pages.

The history of my website is a complex one, spanning multiple years and multiple static site generators. It all began on Eleventy back in 2023 after Matt (a.k.a. The Linux Cast) changed his site to Eleventy. Before I then moved to Hugo, and then to Zola (where I used the Duckquill theme by Daudix). I then got inspired by Joel’s website and decided to completely rewrite my site using Jekyll, and that’s where we are today.