About Me

Introduction

I'm a creature in my early twenties. I use she/her pronouns. I'm from Poland (Europe). I have a BSc in Bioinformatics.

In my free time I like making computers go beep boop and taking photos.

You can find me on:

You can also [email me]

If you wish to contact me through a secure channel, I highly prefer Signal .

If for some reason you do not wish to use Signal and the messages must be encrypted you may use PGP (see below), in that case please attach your public key to the message.

For sending encrypted files here is my age public key: age19t44mpkyhaznwljsp6q003unex7va8nptgx7ypcklyh4qhnzjqxs79u7zg

For verifying digital signatures here is my OpenBSD Signify public key: RWRMEKJgLMflb52M9v+Up1yRPxWWzUUEspZ4eY4+0POQyZzb0vW1dC+j

The public keys are available as standalone files:

The PGP key is also available via WKD so you can import it with gpg --locate-external-keys [email protected]

Donations

If you like anything I'm doing and want to support me financially, here are the ways to do it:

You can now support me on Ko-Fi

I don't like cryptocurrencies for many reasons, however they can occasionally be useful:
XMR: 46hHe6CfaxfJYXCPjcnDkNNoTrkJFLqTCUk2AATamiiPKzDB4rZ4N7DD6PXpr4JWZvZvUWmEGA8zmUjy2H1SdLDiT82GUhv

Programming

I really like open source stuff, I have contributed to a bunch of projects, the largest being Veloren, and I am developing a bunch of my own personal projects.

I use Linux as my main operating system across all my computers. My favorite distribution being Arch (although I have used Ubuntu and NixOS before).

My favorite programming languages are Rust and Python, I also have a decent knowledge of R, C/C++, Lua and Go, I have played around with Kotlin, Java, JavaScript and Nix. I generally prefer doing backend developement although I have dabbled into native GUI libraries (in fact, my bachelor's thesis involves writing a Python/GTK program).

I also have a decent grasp of HTML/CSS as shown by this website :3

I have some experience with experimental data processing and analysis using Rust (for parsing and initial processing) and Python (for statistical analysis using Numpy and Pandas and visual presentation using MatPlotLib).

Overall, I have played with parsing various data formats, that aren't necessarily intended to be machine-readable, notably extracting data from transaction confirmation PDFs from my bank.

I have some experience with microcontroller programming (AVR-C on ATMega MCUs, Arduino), with ongoing projects including a weather station (clock + temperature/humidity measurement) based on an ATMega8.

I have a basic understanding of electronic circuits, experience with soldering, using breadboards, multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.

While not strictly related I also have some interest in 3D printing (and CAD design), mostly in FreeCAD. My skills have been enough to design and manufacture simple custom replacement parts by recreating damaged ones.

I also have background in digital art/design and some knowledge about image processing - I have successfully implemented a program for finding and processing blocks of text on dozens of consistently-formatted document scans before.

These are mostly projects I think could be useful to others, I have many more projects that are either ongoing or unpublished.

See also my full list of projects

You can find more of my projects here:

Photography

I am also really into digital photography. I have been doing it since I was a child and it's one of those things that's stayed with me consistently.

The Big Section About Photography

For reference, all of the pictures below have full EXIF data available so if you're curious about the camera or settings, feel free to check that with your favorite metadata viewer :)

Well, first off take a look at this photo I took when I was 12. I'm really proud of it and honestly I've never gotten an opportunity to take a photo like that ever since.

A photo of a small lizard chilling between a large amount of pink flowers.

Here's more of a close-up, those two photos were probably taken like 10 seconds apart before the lizard ran away.

A photo of a small lizard chilling between a large amount of pink flowers. Slightly closer up and with a slightly different perspective.

Macro and close-up nature photography is perhaps one of my favorite kinds. Although this page underrepresents that.

A square closeup photo of a bee sitting on a leaf.

A photo where I mostly played around with some color settings in Lightroom. I haven't used that program since moving to Linux a few years ago though, now I mostly use RawTherapee, sometimes Darktable. I'm quite proud of this one, I really like how the smaller branches aren't completely black but instead look almost translucent.

A photo taken in the evening, with sky in a deep blue color. You can see the outline of a giant, leafless oak tree. The smaller branches look almost transparent.

This photo just has such nice vivid colors.

A photo of a hilly grassy field, taken from roughly the top of a valley. The colours are very vivid - green grass and other vegetation and blue sky with some nice clouds. There is a forest on the horizon.

This is a pheasant that I managed to catch a photo of in the middle of the winter. It was challenging to make this photo look as good as it does in terms of post-processing, but I gotta say, dehaze filters can do wonders for photos like this one.

A photo of a pheasant - a large brown bird with a almost black but slightly green-ish head and red spots around the eyes - in the middle of the winter. You can see large snowflakes flying around.

A sharp photo of a pigeon mid-flight. This took a bunch of attempts. I took advantage of the very good lighting conditions and used a shutter speed of 1/1000s with the widest available aperture of f5.6. Certainly took advantage of the Nikon D3300's stock lens having a very snappy autofocus here. This photo didn't require much work in post, it's just really good.

A sharp photo of a pigeon mid-flight with it's wings spread wide. There's a white building and the sky in the background.