About

• Based in the Chicago area.
• Born on March 15th, 1988.
• I'm shy and might come across as reserved and standoffish at first, but I open up when I get more comfortable with people.
• I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of Illinois-Springfield.
• I'm an advocate for mental health and people living with mental illness.
• Some of my favorite things include: free and open source software, free culture, open access, diversity, automation, programming, logic, video games, role-playing games, language, and coffee.
• I dislike monocultures, non-consensual power structures, and closed-mindedness.
• My pronouns are he or they.
• I'm autistic.
• I'm genderfluid. More specifically, I'm a demi-gendered man, which means I identify as mostly masculine and have some feminine markers. For all intents and purposes, though, I'm a cis-hetero man.
• I have schizo-affective disorder and OCD. I was diagnosed in September of 2007 and have been taking medication since 2006. Secondary symptoms that stem from these, and which overlap with my neurodivergence, include: agoraphobia, social phobia, selective mutism, and alogia / speech articulation issues.
• I'm an atheist, naturalist, and secular humanist.
• Politically, I'm a socialist and anarchist.
• Click here for more facts about me (if you want)

Interests

• programming / scripting: Python, Go, Bash, Zsh, Nushell
• Unix and Linux system administration
• computer networks
• ActivityPub
• AT Protocol
• infosec / cyber-security
• self-hosting
• small web / indieweb / Gemini (protocol)
• JavaScript-free web design and development
• defenestrating Big Tech
• digital homemaking
• digital archiving and preservation
• retro-computing
• decentralized internet
• privacy and digital rights
• free and open source software / culture / content / access
• Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
• mental illness and mental health awareness
• neurodivergence
• history
• psychology
• anthropology
• philosophy
• language and linguistics
• mythology and folklore
• hacker culture and hacker ethic
• high fantasy and science fiction
• video games