About
- Based in the Chicago area.
- Born on March 15th, 1988.
- Sensitive, introverted, intuitive.
- I’m shy and might come across as reserved and standoffish at first, but I open up when I get more comfortable with people.
- Aspiring system administrator and programmer.
- I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of Illinois-Springfield.
- Mental illness and mental health advocate.
- Favorite things: free and open source software/culture/content/access, diversity, automation, programming, logic, video games, role-playing games, language, and coffee.
- I dislike monocultures, non-consensual power structures, and closed-mindedness.
- He/him/his, they/them/their
- I’m neurodivergent: autism/ADHD.
- I’m genderfluid. More specifically, I’m a demi-gendered man, which means I identify as mostly masculine and have some feminine markers.
- I have schizoaffective disorder and OCD. I was diagnosed in September of 2007 and have been taking medication since 2006. Secondary symptoms that stem from these include agoraphobia, social phobia, selective mutism, and alogia/speech articulation issues.
- I’m an atheist/naturalist and secular humanist.
- Politically, I’m a pragmatic libertarian socialist. I support democracy, pluralism, and the ideals of the Pirate Party.
Computing Repertoire
I’m very interested in how other people do their computing. I enjoy seeing workstation setups, dotfiles, and what software/tools others use as daily drivers.
Interests
Below is an outline of things I’m interested in and would like to learn more about:
- Python
- Go
- Unix/Linux system administration
- computer networking
- infosec
- Nushell, bash, zsh, shell scripting
- programming languages
- type-safe and memory-safe programming
- public philosophy and public reasoning
- self-hosting
- digital homemaking
- Internet archiving
- Data hoarding (NOT as in the compulsive hoarding disorder)
- Gemini protocol and the Smolnet
- retro-computing
- decentralized internet
- privacy and digital rights
- free and open source software/culture/content/access
- Wikipedia and other WikiMedia projects
- mental illness and mental health awareness
- neurodivergence
- minimalism
- psychology
- anthropology
- language and linguistics
- mythology and folklore
- Hacker culture
- Hacker ethic
- high fantasy / medieval fantasy and science fiction
- role-playing games: Only video games for now, but One Of These Days™ I will get into table-top gaming.
Contact
- Matrix: @hyperreal:fedora.im
- Fediverse: @hyperreal@fedi.hyperreal.coffee
- Discord: https://discordapp.com/users/263927928595808257
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/hyperreal64
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hyperreal.coffee
- Email: hyperreal@fedoraproject.org
- IRC: hyperreal (irc.libera.chat and irc.tilde.chat)