by day i semi-successfully present myself as an eccentric human woman employed as an embedded systems software engineer.
this has required me to work with things such as Yocto Linux, Android, Buildroot, OpenWRT, FreeRTOS, Zephyr, etc.
it also frequently involves me writing C/C++ code, and sometimes other languages like Lua and Elixir.
i have also been a senior software engineer doing Linux distribution development, maintenance, devops, and legacy sysadmining adjacent work for companies in the internet services (cloud, security, cdn, etc) and financial sector.
in my spare time, i have many hobbies that i pursue, most of which involve computers in some capacity.
i also play numerous musical instruments, including electric, classical, lap steel, and bass guitars, trumpet, ocarina, and modular synthesizers.
i have an interest in computer history. sometimes i like to use and maintain computers that others might
consider obsolete. you can find a list of some of them here.
sometimes i write code for myself, for fun and practice.
i have written a gameboy emulator that doesn't work very well, but was fun to write.
i spent some time optimizing the quake engine to make it run a bit faster on 486 PCs.
over the years, i have contributed to a semi-popular quake 2 mod and run a server for it.
there is a screensaver i made for IRIX that draws a 4d hypercube rotating in all 6 planes, which you can find here.
when i was five years old, i learned how to write simple web pages in html, by hand.
i don't see much of a need for myself to use more than that on my website today.
it wouldn't be much of an exaggeration to say that i grew up in a server room.
i have the tinnitus to prove it.
i use NetBSD, and run it on many different computers and architectures.
sometimes i try to add support for it to various open source projects.
if you have an ASN and are interested in discussing or participating in an IPX-protocol network (whether running Novell NetWare or something else), or are interested in having access to such a network as an end user, please get in touch.
