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+## What is git.lirion.de?
+
+This is simply because I needed a place to stuff my private code in, sharing is caring and all those
+$reasons. lirion.de is not a huge company with gazillions of employees (also, see below) so
+Github/GitLab collaboration benefits are not required here while the former is now owned by Microsoft
+and not in your hands, and the latter is way too much overhead for a small cozy site like this.
+
+## Why git.lirion.de?
+
+1. First of all: public sharing. Be it a community thought or a bit of shameless self-display -
+   praising the former and pleading guilty for the latter.
+2. I am a consultant and I'm running around places a lot. Companies, for reasons of cost-effectiveness
+   (tee, hee), usually only offer internal interfaces of their repositories (for what needs to remain
+   internal ofc) but no public port for those aliens of us who still identify with their work beyond
+   desk and work hours. So: everything I created that is not confidential will reside outside those
+   companies. Your decision.
+3. The thought before this would never have occurred if laziness did not interfere with my philosophy.
+   I loved my first read of [The Cathedral and the Bazaar](http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/)
+   , and people like Peter Ganten seeing no future in Closed Source and Profit Through Obscurity
+   make me run around with a smile on my face. But for reasons of laziness I pushed *any* code into
+   corporate repositories, which ceased when the SSH port was closed to the "WWW" but not HTTPS (lel)
+   and I like my SSH.
+
+## Why cgit?
+
+I did experiment with GitLab even before the Github disaster, but decided for myself: this is too huge
+for a small site. I had gitweb runnign before, but changing the looks and contents of the web frontend
+while possible still looks like ancient tinkering about.
+
+But lo, then the Gods hath created [cgit](https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/)! I discovered this only recently
+and immediately spawned an this instance. Nicely customisable, lean, performant. Even though he doesn't
+know me, I really love Jason's work and should he ever read this: your git content and server rock, man.
+
+## What is your time?
+
+Why should we care? cgit's default of speaking UTC is a nice one - we come from different corners of
+the world and working in a global sector or having a global hobby should start to make us familiar with
+that. For those who don't get the drift: this is UK winter time all the year \*sips coffee near the mantle\*