From ac75cd10b991e35e0207db0f1e7ab6edbd3398f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lynne
+ I'm Lynne. My interests include creating free software, 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
+ things or writing software to make things more accessible.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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 %}
+
+ 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
+ Buypeeb, a simple program for tracking prices on Buyee
+ auctions.
+
+ I've also written some more widely applicable software, such as
+ OCRbot, a tool for automatically transcribing the text content of
+ image posts on the Fediverse, and bcao, a small script for
+ organising music from the .zip files provided by Bandcamp into the user's music directory.
+
+ All my computers and laptops run Linux, perhaps unsurprisingly. I mainly stick to
+ Arch and Debian. Every Android phone I've ever
+ owned (with the exception of my very first) ended
+ up running Cyanogenmod or
+ LineageOS at some point, usually soon after purchase. This includes my current
+ 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 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 Python. I'm also somewhat familiar with
+ C# and
+ JavaScript, and I'm (slowly) learning
+ Rust.
+
Welcome to my website, where I write about and catalogue things that are interesting to me, and maybe even to you,
too!
- I'm Lynne. My interests include creating free software, playing story-driven games, photography, and writing.
+ My public PGP key is available on Keybase. I've proven
+ ownership of the lynnesbian Keybase account via
+ DNS.
- Most 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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 %}
-
- 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
- Buypeeb, a simple program for tracking prices on Buyee
- auctions.
-
- I've also written some more widely applicable software, such as
- OCRbot, a tool for automatically transcribing the text content of
- image posts on the Fediverse, and bcao, a small script for
- organising music from the .zip files provided by Bandcamp into the user's music directory.
-
- All my computers and laptops run Linux, perhaps unsurprisingly. I mainly stick to
- Arch and Debian. Every Android phone I've ever
- owned (with the exception of my very first) ended
- up running Cyanogenmod or
- LineageOS at some point, usually soon after purchase. This includes my current
- 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 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 Python. I'm also somewhat familiar with
- C# and
- JavaScript, and I'm (slowly) learning
- Rust.
-