About Me

Hey!

I’m txtsd! You might know me as Raven, in meatspace.

I’m a home-maker and a full-time parent.

I spend my free time developing and packaging Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). I use FOSS in a myriad of manners to make my daily life rich and easy. Most of my code is published under a copyleft license because software freedom is not negotiable. Proprietary lock-in, surveillance capitalism, the exploitation of open source labour, and the commodification of basic digital infrastructure are all symptoms of the same disease. I do not build software to feed that machine.

That said, the people I communicate with are on Discord, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. Discord is a proprietary platform run by a company whose values I do not share, but it is where my communities live. Rather than suffer through their bloated Electron client every day, I’m building kind, a native alternative in C++ and Qt 6 that respects your hardware and your time. It is not the ideal solution. It is the practical one, until something better replaces the need entirely.

I’ve been using GNU/Linux since 2014, specifically Arch Linux.

I primarily code in C++, Python, Lua, and ShellScript, but I also work with Rust, C, C#/.NET, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and Go. I’m well versed in a lot of other technologies that revolve around these ecosystems.

Head over to my Projects and GitHub pages to see what I’ve been working on.