what is a natalie?

it is natalie^[1]. obviously.

describing oneself is a rather nontrivial exercise. on top of that, it is bad at writing. nevetheless, it shall attempt.

TLDR

standard issue autistic adhd /(agender|transfem)/ /(aro|lesbian)-(gray)?ace/ robot girl. 18.93049934 years old. on hrt for 3.65329194 years. it/its; q=1.0, she/her; q=0.8, they/them; q=0.01. located in portland, oregon

extended description

frankly the TLDR says many of the things necessary for $READER to make assumptions about it. other notable natalie properties include the fact that it dropped out of college two times prior to its 19th birthday, has been programming or doing hardware stuff in some capacity or another for as long as it can remember (it remembers building an 8 bit cpu in minecraft when it was 8 or 9!), and that it very much enjoys systems with behavior dictated by a well-defined set of rules (in case that was not obvious with the autism).

it is currently unemployed, so on the slim chance that $READER is within the likely single-digit number of people that would find this website and be in a position to offer it a job, do e-mail it! please!

hobbies, likes and dislikes, opinions

hobbies

it has several hobbies. obviously.

configuring software to an unreasonably personal extent
writing its own software, often in unconventional ways^[2]
implementing http/1.1 from scratch (it has rewritten a toy implementation like 8 times. this page is currently being served by one such implementation.)
creating awful bash oneliners
modifying its build of the linux kernel
making the python interpreter segfault^[3]

additionally, it enjoys learning about math, chemistry, biology, physics, geography, urban planning, history, and languistics. it has an interest in locks as well. sometimes it makes keys. really it likes anything bounded by a well-defined self-consistent set of rules (as stated earlier).

likes and dislikes

things it likes:

computing hardware
friends (obviously)
walking around cities aimlessly and looking at cool infrastructure
trains
croissants

trunkated unordered enumeration of things it does not like:

computers that do not share a keyboard layout with its computer
american urban planning
canadian urban planning
airdrie, alberta
the united kingdom
improper uses of xml^[4]
toml
busywork
computers
ultraviolet radiation

opinions

all of these are objectively true, endorsed by your employer, the catholic church, and the king of spain.

the modern web is a perversion of the original intent of the internet (thanks, ~~obama~~ capitalism).
(generative) ai, (generative) ai companies, and especially (generative) ai company owners should all shut up and preferably cease existing.
there is and never has been a good unix terminal emulator.^[5]
there is and never has been a good wayland compositor
there is and never has been a good xorg window manager (fvwm comes close, though)
the gtk developer experience is frustrating
no good smart phones manufactured after 2016 exist.
non-posix-compliant shells are annoying.
graphical file managers are extremely confusing
word processing software is arcane and incomprehensible, and there are few cases where it is not easier to use -e $L A T E X .$

contact

modes of communication ordered by likelihood of it seeing the reader's message:

e-mail (note: it is equally likely to perceive messages to any of these addresses):
- natalie at natalieee.net
- natalie-roentgen-connolly at mail.natalie-roentgen-connolly.website
- natalie@sakamoto.pl
fedi: @0x6e6174@catgirl.cloud
matrix: @0x6e6174:catgirl.cloud
discord: @0x6e6174
signal: zero_x_six_e_six_one_seven_four.57

note: signal regularly breaks on its computer because the signal foundation does not know how to make software that works. matrix is its preferred IM even though that is bad, too.

cryptography

ssh:

ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIOs2VLWgMxmQlLFSpOG01v6i5pVLtgHyQg74nwNNYTlT natalie@natalieee.net

pgp:

computers it owns

it owns many computers. here are some notable ones:

its framework 16

it will probably write about its old thinkpad and link it above at some point. its old thinkpad was so wonderful.

the natalie is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. in no event shall the copyright holders or anyone distributing the natalie be liable for any damages or other liability, whether in contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the natalie or the use or other dealings in the natalie.^[1]

refer to its scripts for compiling python code to shell builtins^[2]

there are some relevant blog posts about this one.^[3]

as described here^[4]

if the reader disagrees, e-mail this one with the reader's choice of terminal emulator—this one has been trying to find a good one for ages.^[5]

comments

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