Introduction
I am Pratyush Sharma. I am a student of law; however, law is merely my academic interest, and a human being is capable of having multiple interests, as you might already know. I love computers and everything related to technology. I like yapping about privacy & security in the digital world. I think a bit too much about religion, spirituality & occult, and I ruin family dinners with my political takes.
Why “movant203”?
On the internet, for a lot of things, you need a username. Now there’s a sort of culture of using either some random phrase or some meaningful or not term as an alias alongside one’s real name, if at all one discloses their real name on the internet. I tried keeping my alias a bit meaningful, so allow me to explain it!
“movant” means - a person who applies to or petitions a court or judge for a ruling in their favour. I confidently took this definition from Google btw.
“203” refers to the http code 203 which means - “the request was successful, but the response was modified by a proxy or cache server. This means that the response may not be authoritative, and the client should use caution when deciding whether to follow it.” - also confidently taken from Google.
There’s no special meaning to it, or is there? Well, “movant” is there to tell that I am somehow connected to the field of law, and “203” is there to tell that anything posted under the disguise of this alias/username does NOT hold any authority in any subject matter even loosely mentioned, and you are requested to exercise caution when reading, following, or insert_some_verb_here it.
The purpose of this Blog
Eh… this blog doesn’t really have any solid purpose. The author, which is of course me, merely wanted a space to freely post his guides, thoughts, and ideas that may or may not help or inspire someone who might actually be important and do actual important things with it. That’s really it. Actually, no, that’s not it. I may also use this site to post all my original, yet unjustly rejected, academic blogs and papers. I mean, why would I throw away my hard work and never show it to the world just because a bunch of normies rejected it?
About the Site
I wanted to make a blog site for so long, but I didn’t. It was not that I could not make one. I mean, using something like WordPress would have been the simplest thing to do. The thing is, I like a more DIY approach, but I also don’t want to deal with HTML, CSS, JS, and anything front-end web dev related, or at least try to avoid that as much as possible. It’s fine; I do know some HTML, and I can copy-paste stuff from the internet. I started looking up static site generators. I tried Jekyll, but it was too confusing for me. Then I tried blag, which was easy to use, but at the time, I couldn’t figure out how to host it using GitHub Pages, and as it turns out, I am stupid, and it is, in fact, easy to do so. I also thought of trying Hugo, and I almost did, but I suddenly came across Quartz, and I was like, “This is it!”. I mean, you are telling me this integrates well with my favorite note-taking app, Obsidian btw, and is also really easy to configure and host? Hell yeah!
So yeah, this site is made using Quartz and is freely hosted on GitHub Pages with a free domain generously provided by GitHub. You can easily find the source code for all of this on my GitHub profile.
My Socials
GitHub: https://github.com/movant203
Twitter/X: https://x.com/@movant203