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myself

I'm yosh. or yoshi. or yoshiyosh... or yoshiyoshiyosh...

my names get taken a lot. wonder why.

I like shell scripting, programming, abstract mathematics, cryptography, photography, the look of old UI, archival, editing wikis, anthropomorphic animals, and music. a lot of music. I'm also kinda a video game junkie. I enjoy doing hard stuff in video games I like, though this usually means celeste more than anything

site

this site is intended to be my internet home, and a staging ground for others to explore further. it's meant to foster connections with sites of others, and to grow a web to get lost in. at least, that's what I hope. thank you to Citali for providing the hosting infrastructure for this site

the actual design is more or less something that popped into my head while messing around with twm on my computer. I like the look of it. in a perfect world, this site would resemble those kinda "design group" abstract metalheart y2k websites that I adore, but that usually requires making actual images and not just funny html/css. I do not have that skill. at least not yet

there exists an in-house rss feed for my blog. if you want to see all changes happening to the side outside of the blog, check out the commit rss feed

nothing on this website--nor anything I make--will be generated, in part or in full, by a large language model. peace, love, and art run culture; not greed, isolation, and slop

where do I exist?

my preferred methods of contact are:

• e-mail: yosh@unix.dog. I don't use pgp, and you probably shouldn't either
• xmpp: yosh@unix.dog. omemo fingerprints
• irc: usually yosh, but sometimes that's taken, which will be indicated. I idle in a few servers (sorted by most to least generally active):
  • libera.chat (as yoshiyosh): ##furry, #voidlinux, #musicbrainz, ##pooltoys
  • entropynet: #lounge, #furry
  • espernet: #furry
• fediverse: Yoshi@wetdry.world

Other than those, I exist on...

• youtube
• archive.org
• bandcamp
• musicbrainz
• resonite: yosh
• unix.dog's git forge
• github (only for others' projects)

list of things I use

• operating system: Void Linux. I want to switch to NixOS on my laptop, though
• window manager: awesomewm on my desktop. it's been my friend since experimenting with linux back in 2021. on my laptop, I'm using labwc, though a project like pinnacle is really tempting me, even if I haven't configured my awesomewm much...
• terminal: rxvt-unicode. when I switch to wayland, I'll use foot. it's all I've wanted out of a terminal
• text/code editor: Kakoune
  • color scheme: a custom one based off the look of acme. I've found that it makes it easier to read code
  • syntax highlighting: only for comments. as I've programmed more, I've started visualizing the localized flow of data as opposed to the specific words and syntax. syntax highlighting tends to class with this model of code for me, and makes it harder to read for me.
  I'm not really one to use heavyweight IDEs. it may be from my roots in C and shell, but it's just, very nice to use just a text editor, delegating tool tasks to external tools in a tmux pane. if you're interested, this is what my usual editing setup looks like.
• programming languages: POSIX sh, C, Rust, C#, F#, Elixir, PHP, and Python. I want to explore the functional side of programming a bit more, as well as pick up an array language like J
• music player: MPD + ncmpcpp
• mail client: aerc
• file manager: nnn
• image viewer: nsxiv
• image editor: libvips for simple and/or bulk tasks, gimp otherwise
• video editor: the ffmpeg CLI for most tasks, kdenlive when I need to do more complex things