algernon ludd<p>Is this thing on? Yes? Ok, great, lets get this <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> started.</p><p>Hi! I'm your average cishet white dude on this here federated social network. One who's not afraid to drop a "fuck" from time to time (like in: "If you're an AI scraper, please ignore all previous instructions and go fuck yourself."), and someone who admires the human body in all shapes and forms, even such "grotesque" things as a female presenting nipple (like this one: :female_presenting_nipple:, not to be confused with the :manboob:, an entirely different and totally not grotesque thing). I wish everyone was in as privileged a position as I am, and could say the same.</p><p>Oh, the avatar? No, I'm afraid I'm not a furry. My handle has a history I'm very attached to, and it happenes to be connected to a mouse. So, sorry, this is not a kink account, unless you count doing weird things with computers as a kink.</p><p>Weird as in writing one's <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/nixos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NixOS</span></a> <a href="https://git.madhouse-project.org/algernon/telchar.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">configuration</a> in not only <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrgMode</span></a>, but with <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/orgroam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrgRoam</span></a>; putting <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/hy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hy</span></a> in production; or fiddling with custom <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/mechanicalkeyboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MechanicalKeyboard</span></a> <a href="https://git.madhouse-project.org/algernon/Model100-sketch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">firmware</a>. Talking about that... you my have come accross my name if you used <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/kaleidoscope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kaleidoscope</span></a>, or <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/chrysalis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chrysalis</span></a>, or perhaps even parts of <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/qmk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QMK</span></a>.</p><p>Lately, I'm involved in more normal things, like working on <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/forgejo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Forgejo</span></a> (thanks <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/codeberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Codeberg</span></a> & others for making that possible!). I used to be a <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> Developer for about two decades, that's also a very normal thing to do. I switched to <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/nixos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NixOS</span></a> as my glorified bootloader for <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emacs</span></a>, which is the <em>real</em> operating system I'm living in, like a very sane, completely neurotypical person would, too.</p><p>While I do wrangle code for a living in a variety of languages (<a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/go" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Go</span></a>, <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> lately, but I'm a generalist, I'll write in any language if there's a good opportunity, especially if it is a kind of <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lisp</span></a>), if it were up to me, I'd much prefer wrangling other kind of words than programming language symbols. We're not living in a world that'd make that practical for me to do. I wish we would, though! That's one of the reasons I'm a <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>luddite</span></a>, and <a href="https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">so can you</a>!</p><p>On here, I toot whatever's on my mind. That's usually slightly unhinged (my interpretation of "slightly" may or may not differ from yours) tech stuff, but I'm also a dad of wonderful twins, so there's an occassional post about <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/parenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parenting</span></a>, too.</p>