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- I'm Lynne. My interests include creating free software, playing story-driven games, photography, and writing. + I'm Lynne. My interests include creating and improving free software, learning all I can about computer science, + playing story-driven games, photography, and writing.
- Most of what I do with computers is about helping people, whether that's through writing simple scripts to automate + 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.
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- While making games and tools was (and is) enjoyable to me, what I want to do most is create software that helps - people - I find it by far my greatest motivator. + 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.
I don't really consider myself a hardcore gamer, 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, etc. {% comment %} FOOTNOTE - why do so many games have spiders!!!! {% endcomment %} + removing potentially phobia-inducing elements, and so on. {% comment %} FOOTNOTE - why do so many games have + spiders!!!! {% endcomment %}
{% comment %} {% include h.html level=3 content="Some things I've made" %} ++ fif 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. +
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 @@ -50,19 +58,13 @@ title: About phone.
- I avoid proprietary and/or closed software wherever I can without hugely inconveniencing myself. The vast majority of - the software on my computer(s) is free and open source. I am strongly opposed to almost all forms of - DRM, and either avoid buying media with it, or - remove it after purchase. For example, I buy all of my music from Bandcamp and - download the OGG version of the albums. I do this for both - ideological/philosophical and practical reasons. + I consider myself an advocate for free and open source software, and all of my existing projects are licensed under + copyleft or permissive licences.
I used to use social media (the Fediverse, specifically) a fair amount, but I've since moved away from all forms of social media besides reddit (where I never post).
- Most of my programming is done in Rust or Python. I'm also somewhat familiar with - C# and - JavaScript. + For info on what programming languages I tend to use, see my skills page.
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