ratfactor.. no. mousefactor?.. no... refactor! goddamit@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club
It's been a while I refreshed my pinned #introduction toot, and I figured today will be a fitting day to write a new one.
Hi! Despite the avatar, I'm not a furry[1](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fn:1), I'm a boring cishet white dude. Despite my privileged status, I might be considered a "terrorist"[2](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fn:2) in some weird jurisdictions, and some companies[3](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fn:3) will consider me a "malicious actor", because I built myself a crawler defense system that serves them an infinite maze of garbage. To them, I say: fuck you. I'm a Vengeful Mouse.
I also have the privilege of being able to admire the human body in all shapes and forms, even such "grotesque" things as a female presenting nipple (like this one: 
, not to be confused with the 
, an entirely different and totally not grotesque thing). I wish this was the norm, rather than a privilege.
I'm a serial drive-by contributor, I have my fingerprints all over the internet. I have code in #QMK, #Kaleidoscope, and #Chrysalis, but I contributed to #Forgejo, #niri, and a whole lot of other things too. I find great joy in playing with new things, and submitting patches or other contributions. I used to be a #Debian developer, I've put #Hy in production, and lately I've been building #NixOS configurations not only as a literate #OrgMode document, with with #OrgRoam. I am extremely normal and neurotypical.
Apart from these very normal things, I use #NixOS to boot into #Emacs, which is the real operating system I use, like a very sane, completely neurotypical person would. I also tend to live-toot (very verbosely) all kinds of shenanigans I'm up to, because I always forget I have a blog.
While I do wrangle code for a living in a variety of languages (in whatever language necessary, I'm a generalist! But if I can choose, I turn to #Rust, although #Lisp languages are also very dear to me), if it were up to me, I'd much prefer wrangling other kinds of words[4](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fn:4) than programming language symbols. Sadly, we're not living in a world that makes possible, so I had no choice but become a #luddite and so can you.
But I'm not all about tech[5](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fn:5)! I'm also Dad to wonderful Twins, and Husband to my Wife, who not only puts up with my crazy, but gently[6](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fn:6) fans the flames too. I may occassionally toot about #parenting, too.
I may or may not have an unhealthy addiction to footnotes[7](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fn:7).
Nope, I'm not in denial stage, I do not work in infosec. [↩
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I'm anti-fascist. [↩︎](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fnref:2)
Like [Anthropic](https://web.archive.org/web/20251009214719/https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison#:~:text=malicious%20actors%20can%20inject%20specific%20text%20into%20these%20posts%20to%20make%20a%20model%20learn%20undesirable%20or%20dangerous%20behaviors%2C%20in%20a%20process%20known%20as%20poisoning.). [↩︎](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fnref:3)
Short stories like this toot, or The Tragedy of Byr (which might need an explanation to really understand what's going on). [↩︎](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fnref:4)
I wish I could leave tech, really. [↩︎](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fnref:5)
Where "gently" is either an eyeroll and more wood thrown onto the campfire, or straight up lighting up the neighbourhood, figuratively speaking. [↩︎](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fnref:6)
...if you haven't noticed yet... [↩︎](#01K88AN1ADSXQ0MK4JPZQV7PQM-fnref:7)