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title: About
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{% include h.html level=2 content="What I do" %}
<p>
	My interests include creating and improving free software, learning all I can about computer science, playing 
	story-driven games, photography, and writing.
</p>
<p>
	Much of what I do with computers is about helping people, whether that's through writing simple scripts to automate
	things or writing software to make things more accessible.
</p>
<p>
	I got into computers from a young age, and would spend more time playing around with the control panel on my parent's
	Windows 2000 machine than actually playing games on it. I played a lot of LittleBigPlanet, trying to make complex
	contraptions and logic machines to accomplish tasks within the game.
</p>
<p>
	The type of software I want to create most is that which helps people, whether it be through providing or improving
	on accessibility options, creating tools that aim to simplify complex tasks, or even writing documentation that
	makes existing software easier to use	- I	find it	by far	my greatest motivator.
</p>
<p>
	I don't really consider myself a <em>hardcore gamer</em>, but I do enjoy video games - usually those with a focus on
	creativity or story. I've tried to make a few games before, but never completed any outside of short little minigames
	and TI-84 calculator toys. I'd like to make a few small games of my own, and I'm really interested in one day making
	mods for existing games to make them more accessible - lowering difficulty, removing epilepsy-triggering sequences,
	removing potentially phobia-inducing elements, and so on. {% comment %} FOOTNOTE - why do so many games have
	spiders!!!! {%	endcomment %}
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{% include h.html level=3 content="Some things I've made" %}
<p>
	<a href="https://gitlab.com/Lynnesbian/fif">fif</a> is a tool to find and optionally correct files with misnamed
	extensions. It's written in Rust, partially to teach myself the language, and partially because it's (in my
	opinion) a more suitable language for a small CLI project like this than something like C# or Python.
</p>
<p>
	I've made a lot of software to help my wife Petra, but much of it is too specific to her needs to be useful on a
	greater scale, with perhaps a few exceptions, such as
	<a href="https://git.bune.city/lynnesbian/buypeeb-cs">Buypeeb</a>, a simple program for tracking prices on Buyee
	auctions.
</p>
<p>
	I've also written some more widely applicable software, such as
	<a href="https://github.com/Lynnesbian/OCRbot">OCRbot</a>, a tool for automatically transcribing the text content of
	image posts on the Fediverse, and <a href="https://git.bune.city/lynnesbian/bcao">bcao</a>, a small script for
	organising music from the .zip files provided by Bandcamp into the user's music directory.
</p>
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{% include h.html level=2 content="What I use" %}
<p>
	All my computers and laptops run Linux, perhaps unsurprisingly. I mainly stick to
	<a href="https://archlinux.org">Arch</a> and <a href="https://debian.org">Debian</a>. Every Android phone I've ever
	owned (with the exception of <a href="https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_u8150_ideos-3513.php">my very first</a>) ended
	up running <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyanogenMod">Cyanogenmod</a> or
	<a href="https://lineageos.org/">LineageOS</a> at some point, usually soon after purchase. This includes my current
	phone.
</p>
<p>
	I consider myself an advocate for free and open source software, and all of my existing projects are licensed under
	copyleft or permissive licences.
</p>
<p>
	I'm fairly active on the Fediverse, and I self-host Mastodon. You can follow me on 
	<a rel="me" href="https://fedi.lynnesbian.space/@lynnesbian">my account at fedi.lynnesbian.space</a>!
</p>
<p>
	For info on what programming languages I tend to use, see <a href="skills.html">my skills page</a>.
</p>