algernon (not a container thing)<p>It's been a while I refreshed my pinned <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> toot, and I figured today will be a fitting day to write a new one.</p><p>Hi! Despite the avatar, I'm not a furry1, I'm a boring cishet white dude. Despite my privileged status, I might be considered a "terrorist"2 in some weird jurisdictions, and some companies3 will consider me a "malicious actor", because I built myself a <a href="https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">crawler defense system</a> that serves them an infinite maze of garbage. To them, I say: fuck you. I'm a Vengeful Mouse.</p><p>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: :female_presenting_nipple:, not to be confused with the :manboob:, an entirely different and totally not grotesque thing). I wish this was the norm, rather than a privilege.</p><p>I'm a serial drive-by contributor, I have my fingerprints all over the internet. I have code in <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/qmk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QMK</span></a>, <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/kaleidoscope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kaleidoscope</span></a>, and <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/chrysalis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chrysalis</span></a>, but I contributed to <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/forgejo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Forgejo</span></a>, <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/niri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>niri</span></a>, 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 <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> developer, I've put <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, and lately I've been building <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/infrastructure.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">configurations</a> not only as a literate <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrgMode</span></a> document, with with <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/orgroam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrgRoam</span></a>. I am extremely normal and neurotypical.</p><p>Apart from these very normal things, I use <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/nixos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NixOS</span></a> to boot into <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 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 <a href="https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">have a blog</a>.</p><p>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 <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a>, although <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lisp</span></a> languages are also very dear to me), if it were up to me, I'd much prefer wrangling other kinds of words4 than programming language symbols. Sadly, we're not living in a world that makes possible, so I had no choice but become a <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>luddite</span></a> <a href="https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">and so can you</a>.</p><p>But I'm not all about tech5! I'm also Dad to wonderful Twins, and Husband to my Wife, who not only puts up with my crazy, but gently6 fans the flames too. I may occassionally toot 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><p>I may or may not have an unhealthy addiction to footnotes7.</p>  <ol><li><p>Nope, I'm not in denial stage, I do not work in infosec. ↩︎</p></li><li><p>I'm anti-fascist. ↩︎</p></li><li><p>Like <a href="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." rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anthropic</a>. ↩︎</p></li><li><p>Short stories like <a href="https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/@algernon/statuses/01JPXMT695PY08M72XMFKM7MEX" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">this toot</a>, or <a href="https://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2022/05/04/the-tragedy-of-byr/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tragedy of Byr</a> (which might need an <a href="https://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2022/07/18/the-story-of-byr/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">explanation</a> to really understand what's going on). ↩︎</p></li><li><p>I wish I could leave tech, really. ↩︎</p></li><li><p>Where "gently" is either an eyeroll and more wood thrown onto the campfire, or straight up lighting up the neighbourhood, figuratively speaking. ↩︎</p></li><li><p>...if you haven't noticed yet... ↩︎</p></li></ol>