---


import BaseLayout from '../layouts/BaseLayout.astro';
import "../styles/global.css";

const pageTitle = "About Me";

const identity = {
  firstName: "Sarah",
  country: "Canada",
  occupation: "Technical Writer",
  hobbies: ["photography", "birdwatching", "baseball"],
};

const skills = ["HTML", "CSS", "JavaScript", "React", "Astro", "Writing Docs"];
const happy = true;
const finished = false;
const goal = 3;
const skillColor = "crimson";
const fontWeight = "bold";
const textCase = "uppercase";
---
<BaseLayout pageTitle={pageTitle}>
		<style define:vars={{skillColor,fontWeight, textCase}}>
      h1 {
        color: purple;
        font-size: 4rem;

      }
      .skill {
    	color: var(--skillColor);
    	font-weight: var(--fontWeight);
    	text-transform: var(--textCase);
  	}
    .about-p {
      margin: 2rem 0;
    }
    </style>
    <div>
      <h2 style="text-align:center;">How VFP media Came to be</h2>
      <figure class="flx(wrap) center middle is-full">
        <img src="/vfpcattailfolded.png">
      </figure>
      
      <p class="about-p">VFP media started as a portfolio website for getting potential web development jobs. I eventually axed my portfolio website as I figured it no longer served me. 
        After awhile I started playing with Certbot and discovered I could have multiple subdomains with a wildcard DNS certificate, so now I end up controlling 
        as many websites as I want with the *.vfpmedia subdomain. 
      </p>
      <p class="about-p">
        Since then I've worked freelance making several small websites for myself and others, eventually the financial strain was too great, and I had to get a regular job.
        I was gardening at the time, and I figured why not do something that I already kind of like doing and get paid for it? 
      </p>
      <p class="about-p">
        I met my now girlfriend and partner who encouraged me to start this business as a way to help artists get paid and have an online presence, artists that we know
        are working hard at their craft rather than prompting an AI and trying to make money with it. We both have quite a disdain for AI as we've seen it disrupt the lives of our friends
        and family. I believe we choose the technologies we want to exist in this world. It may seem like we are powerless, but I want to show people that you don't have to accept new technology. 
        I've been called a luddite but I refuse to accept a world where art isn't made by human beings. Why should we automate away the very things that make us human?
      </p>
    </div>
		
</BaseLayout>

