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About

Hi! I’m Jules. I’m an 18 year old (?) I was born almost a year after the Xbox 360, by the way. self-proclaimed computer witch. My pronouns are she/her, and I identify as transgender (?) Pro tip: don’t believe anyone who says getting gender affirming care is “too easy” for minors. and a lesbian. (?) Check out my girlfriend’s site as well! I currently live in the United States. (?) My timezone is America/New_York.

I’m very active on the Internet, constantly bouncing between projects and activities. My friends describe my personality as “chaos gremlin energy”, likely because of my crippling ADHD and autism. I choose to believe that’s a compliment.

Hobbies and interests

In my free time, I make computers do things I find fascinating. I started writing code when I was 13, bodging together JavaScript from my other friends’ projects, not really knowing what I was doing. Nowadays, I write code almost every day, and I’ve made and maintain a lot of different projects.

I enjoy playing video games in my free time. I tend to reverse engineer the games and software that I find interesting. I enjoy modding video games, which intersects with my interest in technology, and I datamine FFXIV sometimes. I also enjoy listening to music.

Where to say hi

I enjoy meeting new people and socializing with friends. I tend to make friends via shared interests in communities or being introduced to new social circles. I’ve been in many different communities throughout the years, and as a result, I’m in a lot of corners of the Internet. My friends remark that I’m “seemingly everywhere”.

Feel free to message me and say hi! You can figure out where to reach me on the main page, but I’m most responsive on Discord. Please mention why you’re messaging me, as I get a lot of DMs for varying reasons. Keep in mind I might not respond all the time, but I usually read most things I’m sent.

Don’t message me just to try to befriend me. While I’ve met some cool people who DM’d me in the past, I usually do not want to be your friend. If you repeatedly pester or make small talk with me, I will block you without hesitation.

Tools I use

Computers

I used to use Proxmox for my servers, but I’m slowly moving towards using Docker on Rocky Linux. My previous infrastructure used to use NixOS, but I switched away from it. On Linux, I use KDE Plasma as my desktop environment.

Programming languages

I sort my favorite languages by how much I like using them:

Usually, I’m able to hack my way around other languages when I need to, even if I’m unfamiliar with them.

IDEs

I primarily use Visual Studio Code, Rider, and sometimes Zed, falling back to Visual Studio Code for most misc file editing. I use Vim emulation in my editors, but I’m not very good at it. For styling, I use Catppuccin Latte as a theme, and either Comic Code Ligatures or Inconsolata Nerd Font for my font.

Reverse engineering

I tend to do most of my reverse engineering on Windows, because I don’t like working inside of Wine. I don’t suggest using Cheat Engine nowadays because of its adware-filled installer.

Internet and chat

I use Betterbird on Linux because of its tray icon. I use moonlight with my Discord client (because I made it). I don’t check Matrix or IRC often.

Media

In the future, I’d like to stop using Spotify completely, and only listen to music I buy off of Bandcamp.

Creative work

Krita is traditionally an art program, but I use it as an image editor on Linux because I don’t like GIMP. I don’t suggest using Audacity nowadays because of its heavy push on cloud saves. I only use Blender to fix and arrange models, since I don’t know how to model.

Organization and personal life

I tend to not use Obsidian much, but I used to more frequently in the past. Most of my note taking nowadays happens in the Signal “Note to Self” channel and a personal Discord server. Vikunja is a little buggy with the web UI, so I only use it through Tasks.org and a small desktop app I made.

Misc

In addition to this list, I also use a custom new tab page in my browser, which aggregates various services into one page for me.

Gaming