About

I am 16. I live in Lauerz, Switzerland.

I am doing my apprenticeship at the Kanton Schwyz. The title is Informatiker EFZ, Fachrichtung Plattformentwicklung. In practice that means servers, networks, virtualisation, and the infrastructure everything else runs on.

Linux

I do a lot with Linux. I built Linux From Scratch. Then I installed KDE Plasma on top of it.

LFS gives you a system that boots to a prompt. Everything after that you compile yourself, in the right order, with the right flags, against the right versions. A full desktop environment is a large dependency graph to walk by hand. I wanted to know if I could do it.

It is not a sensible way to run a computer. I do not recommend it. You do learn what a Linux system actually is.

Nix

Building it by hand taught me the problem. A hand-built system exists once. You cannot reproduce it, and if you break it you cannot get back.

Nix fixes that, so almost everything I have built since is Nix. My operating system is a flake. My editor is a flake, pinned to the plugin commit. My installer is an image built in CI. All of that needed somewhere to cache builds, so I wrote Aeroflare.

Elsewhere

Most of what I make is on GitHub. The contact page has every way to reach me.