perilune.space
“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

About Me

Portrait of Dakota
  • I earned a B.S. in aerospace engineering on Florida’s Space Coast
  • I have several tandem skydives at Skydive Sebastian
  • I landed a sport plane 78 times (and will gladly accept more flight hours!)
  • I used to machine parts for artificial shoulders and surgical instruments at Exactech
  • I 💜 dimensional analysis, metrology, and the SI
  • Xenon and titanium are my favorite elements
  • My favorite song is Life on Mars?
  • Mercedes is my favorite Formula 1 team
    • Lewis Hamilton, Yuki Tsunoda, and George Russell are my favorite drivers
    • I used to drive a CLK

About the website

I started this website as a hobby project in 2018, then continued updating it as a hobby and platform to post various things I’ve written. Freshman year of college (2020) was when I really did any technical writing for the first time, and thus had actual content to put on the site. One thing I really enjoy about running a personal website is that I don’t really have to worry about things like broken links and downtime; it mostly exists for my sake.

It’s running Hugo with a scratch-written custom theme, which initially started as a clone of Hugo-Octopress. Over time, it was continually updated to reflect my personal style. I was initially drawn to Octopress because it strongly resembled Apple’s old skeuomorphic design, but my preferred style ended up evolving into a simpler, modern dark theme.