about

whoami

CodeMania. I like efficiency and I don't like unsolved puzzles. My answer to both is code, held to perfectionist standards.

Lightweight, solid tooling. A program should do one thing well and get out of the way. The best compliment a tool of mine can get is that nobody notices it's there. If it's bloated or suboptimal it's not mine.

history --milestones

• the python book python

  Someone gifted me a Python guide book when I was barely a tween, and it stuck. Calculators first, then little scripts, then tiny Discord bots.

• the minecraft era java · kotlin · paper api

  I built and launched a Minecraft box server whose Discord blew past 1500 members three days after release. Running it as a young teenager meant managing staff, a tight update schedule, paying customers, and reinvesting the revenue into paid maps and commissioned art. It's also how I learned Java and some Kotlin, and the first time my code had an effect on other people.

• the linux plunge arch linux

  Hosting put me in a Linux shell every day until Windows stopped making sense. Every machine I own has run Arch since, and the same skills got me co-managing our home server.

• hired gun private work

  Connections from the Minecraft years turned into private work for a variety of large servers and clients.

• going compiled go

  New languages became a habit. I worked through The Go Programming Language cover to cover and fell hard for static binaries, and the ability to ship applications as a single executable.

• now

  Tools still get built wherever they're needed. Look around the site and you might see some of them.

cat ~/interests

• iron. Lifting, most days. Obsessive tracking and constant tweaking keep the plateaus away, so the training stays efficient and I stay satisfied. Instead of downloading a tracking app like a normal person, I wrote GymTracker.
• court. Tennis is the great passion, alongside basketball.
• music. Enough of an obsession that I ended up writing a playlist downloader rather than paying for a second streaming service. I play the saxophone too.
• ricing. Arch, zsh, JetBrains Mono, and a strict one-palette policy. If it renders on my machine, it renders in Nord, this website included.

locale

• LANG=human_MULTI.UTF-8
• LC_ENGLISH="fluent"
• LC_GERMAN="fluent"
• LC_RUSSIAN="fluent"
• LC_SPANISH="high intermediate"
• LC_ALL=(unset)

the rotating hello on the home page is not decoration.