About#
My name is Pavel Sobolev (he/him), also known as paveloom
(pave
, like dave
, then loom
, like doom
). Although I’m comfortable with being called Pave since it is pretty common to shorten nicknames to the first few comfortably sounding syllables in high-paced video games, and I got somewhat accustomed to that in my youth. That’s just easier to pronounce, anyway.
I am a self-taught software engineer who is currently busy developing desktop application software. I was first introduced to programming when I learned Fortran in my first year of university. While I didn’t have a strong interest in it at first, the more code I wrote, the more I came to appreciate the power of programming and how one can solve problems and create new things with it. As I gained more experience, I started to explore topics beyond the curriculum (I was an astronomer student at the time) and eventually became an open sourcerer, which means that I contribute to open source projects and make my work available for others to use and build upon. I have since learned a number of other programming languages, including Julia, Rust, Zig, C, C++, in that order. These are not necessarily replacements for each other but are extensions of the overall experience, which goes far beyond the language of choice.
I am always striving to learn new things and improve my skills. You can check out the notes I have recorded in my digital garden, Pensieve, and my work is available for others to see in the Git section. I keep a journal for logging my life and work, and I think you might find something useful in there, it’s in the Journal section. Finally, I wrote a handful of blog entries back in the day, you can read those in the Blog section.
Quick links#
Contacts#
- Email: contact@paveloom.dev
Site navigation#
Several shortcuts are available for the desktop users. There are two modes:
global
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This mode is active when search is not focussed and when there’s no other focussed element that is susceptible to keyboard input. The following keys are bound:
- F , S , / : open search dialog
- P , ,, Left : go to previous page
- N , ., Right : go to next page
search
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This mode is active when the search is focused. It provides several key bindings to make search accessible and navigable via keyboard:
- Down , Up : select next / previous result
- Esc , Tab : close search dialog
- Enter : follow selected result
You might also want to take a look at how to use the search.