Hi there! 👋
Hi there! I’m Camelia (sometimes abbreviated Cam or C4m), a proudly queer free software developer and sysadmin based in Switzerland. I use she/they pronouns (both are equally fine).
My background 📚
I started to learn programming and computer science back in 2019, just before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, it started with a worry about my privacy, together with a wish to protect my data online. Through my own experiences, I then discovered the world of free and open source software. I rapidly embraced its philosophy, and soon after, decided to install my very first Linux distribution as my primary operating system.
I tried multiple distributions before completing my first Arch Linux installation in 2022. Back then, archinstall wasn’t as stable and as known as it is today, so I didn’t use it, which was a really big achievement for me at the time. Months later, I started learning about Artix Linux, a systemd-free version of Arch Linux. I decided to install it, and I’ve been using it for years after that. These days, I use Alpine Linux, which is a really nice and lightweight distribution based on musl, OpenRC and Busybox, and that is therefore one of the few Linux distributions that can’t be refered to as GNU/Linux (since it uses BusyBox instead of GNU coreutils).
The page you are reading is also served from a server running Alpine Linux ;)
My interests ✨
I am currently passionate about the following topics:
- Alpine Linux
- OpenRC
- ASCII art
- The Gemini protocol - you can visit my capsule here
- Tilde communities
- Lua programming
- Ad-blocking - I even wrote my own ad-blocker, TBlock
- The XMPP protocol - you can contact me with XMPP as well
- Mail systems - I operate my own on this server, don’t hesitate to say hi!
- Statistics
- Queerness and nonbinarity
- Philosophy
- Sociology
- Biology
This website 💜
This website is powered by the Hugo static site generator, with the nbterm theme (that I made myself!). It contains my personal blog, on which I will post mainly about computers, technology, sysadmin stuff and open source software, but also about anything else that I am passionate about. It can also be viewed with the Gemini hypertext transfer protocol.