about
Hello! I'm Far Chinberdiev. I'm a builder and founder — an engineer, a designer, a tech lead, a CTO, depending on the year. The shape is weird, and I've stopped trying to smooth it into one title. What I've built, role by role, is in experience; this page is about the person behind it.
beginning
I was born in a little village called Mulkobod in the Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan. From early childhood I was interested in books, stories, space, technology, and art.
Later I moved to Tashkent for my education — the National University of Uzbekistan, where I got my bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics. Then I stayed there for about two decades.
Since 2021 I've been living in the Kansas City area while exploring the beauty of the United States. Along the way I've collected 24 countries.
technology
In my childhood, access to different kinds of technology was limited. Many families still didn't have a TV; to play video games we'd travel to the city; renting a VHS tape was something we could only afford by splitting the cost with classmates.
I was fortunate for two reasons:
- Our school had Pravets 8A computers (Soviet Macs) — at the time, maybe 2 in 5 schools had computers at all.
- A great teacher who would take me out of other classes to let me program, giving me almost unlimited access to the computers.
I learned to program in BASIC, made animations (it was slow!), and tried to learn binary to make my programs faster. I'd bike 9 km to another school to learn networking: ours was broken, and I was able to fix it by learning how it was set up over there.
I believe computers and the internet are among humanity's great achievements. I've been amazed to watch computers change their shape over the years — whether it was Apple's iPhone or Microsoft's Surface (remember?).
design
Design takes a special place in my heart. As a teenager I drew logotypes and studied letterforms (without even knowing the word "font"). Uzbekistan had just become independent, and logos I'd never seen before were suddenly everywhere: Coca-Cola, Fanta, Adidas. I copied them by hand whenever I could get hold of one.
Later, whenever I learned a new programming language, the graphics module was always the first thing I reached for. I would draw a UI on paper, pixel by pixel, then implement it. Once I built an Excel-like interface, windows and all, in Pascal.
Once I had a chance to design a timetable in Adobe InDesign, which was later distributed to every college in Uzbekistan. I learned how much kerning and letter/word/line spacing matter, how to improve readability, and how desktop publishing works end-to-end.
What I care about most is where technology meets design. I can lose hours to typography, animations, and the small interactions.
photography
I used to just take photos on my iPhone. Then in 2020, mostly out of lockdown boredom, I bought a Fuji X-T4 with an XF 16-80mm lens.
That turned into a real hobby. I started carrying the camera everywhere, shooting everyday things or the quiet corners of places I visited. On weekends I'd edit a few frames and share them.
I still have hundreds of photos sitting in Lightroom, waiting for me to actually finish them. I'll get around to it eventually.
For now, some of the finished ones are on Unsplash.
curiosity
I've always been curious about the things around us. About space. About ideas. I'd ask questions like: where is the edge of the universe? Does it exist? And if it does, what's beyond it?
I love science fiction and fantasy. As a teenager, I read every book in those genres in our village library — fast. Later, the same thing at the university library. The only limit was language: there wasn't much in Uzbek. (Yes — I fixed that later by learning both Russian and English.)
That same curiosity is part of what led me to /gaming.
my name
My full name is "Farhodjon," but most of my friends and family call me just "Farhod," which is the core of it (you may see alternatives like "Farhad" or "Ferhat" — Wikipedia even has a dedicated page). In Uzbek, we add elements like "jon," "bek," and "khon" to a name to honor people.
Another name I picked up after coming to the US is just "Far." It was more familiar and easier to spell, for me and everyone else, and it stuck as my English and international name.
elsewhere
This terminal is the short version (and yes, it's what happens when a builder plays too much Fallout). Open building/ for what I'm making, writing/ for what I'm thinking, and travel for where I've been.