About: moonshadow.dev

hyperreal

FOSS geek, privacy advocate, digital archivist, cypherpunk, gamer

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.

Below is an outline of things I'm interested in and would like to learn more about.

These are my daily drivers.


Armbian	I run this on two of my Orange Pi 5+'s.
CachyOS	I run this on my workstation and laptop.
Catppuccin	My favorite colorscheme for various apps and programs. I've been using it for years. I prefer the mocha variant.
Debian	One of my go-to server distros. I use the stable version in my homelab and on my NAS.
KDE Plasma	My favorite desktop environment.
Neovim	My text editor of choice.
Signal	I don't really use this every day, but my hope is that by being available on it I would be the change I want to see in the world. Unfortunately, nobody I send text messages to is willing to use anything but their phone's default messaging app.
Syncthing	Super convenient cross-device syncing solution.
Tailscale	Super convenient VPN-like solution for easily accessing devices in my homelab.
Waterfox	One of my two web browsers of choice for desktop and mobile. Based on Firefox ESR. They have pledged to be GenAI-free.
Vivaldi	My other web browser of choice. Based on Chromium. I tend to switch between this and Waterfox every so often. Like Waterfox, they have also pledged to be GenAI-free. About 5% of their codebase is proprietary -- mostly UI stuff -- but in today's GenAI-happy tech world it is a welcome reprieve regardless.
Z shell	My default shell almost everywhere. I might start using the Fish shell though. We'll see.
ZFS	Advanced copy-on-write filesystem that I use extensively on my NAS.
Zellij	Terminal multiplexer written in Rust. It is pretty much always running on my workstation.

This site is intentionally simple to improve accessibility.