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