i am ethan and i exist (??????)
anyways.... do not disrupt my sleep (even when you think i should be awake), do not ask me for ETA for anything, or i will bash you in the head with a comically large metal pipe.
having talked to a nonzero number of people this year i figured it'd be nice to put up a something here. (who knows? i might even be able to refer to it later.)
my go-to C programming reference is APUE and CS631APUE, besides the lovely manpages of course. my favorite programming language is Perl 5 (it would have been Python if not for the modern revamp of the email library being getting a little too "opinionated", and if not for it being used heavily for AI... (i still use Python because dang is the standard library good everywhere else.)) and my IDE is Unix (aka POSIX! that includes vi, ed, sed, grep, awk -- and of course perl. (In reality, I use Vim instead of vi, because Unicode support and bunch of other goodies like Netrw.))
my first non-Mac OS non-Windows computer runs
Arch (because why not???
and also it respects my peculiar choice of disk
partitioning. (also Arch Wiki, AUR are some of the
best out there.) although i recently lobotomized it and
now it technically runs Artix.)
my favorite VT console font is default8x9 (setfont -9 -d,
though i will admit it sucks when i put it next to Chinese;
by the way i've also been liking tamsyn, specifically
6x12 and 7x13);
and for graphical stuff i use dwm/xterm (sometimes) and
Xfce4 (way more often than I should be!)
oh, and for data backup i use git-annex!
so i did a Google search of myself (i do that, lol), and Google apparently thought that this critter was me: now I don't blame Google for thinking so, because it happened to be the last pin of tbh i bookmarked on Pinterest.
but i also found it so fitting because i just so happen to be listening to this on loop. i can imagine (despite this footnote) just how few people would know this fact, and even less would understand what really goes through my head. so, there's that. it represents something very specific to me, but not so much to anyone else.
it should go without saying that by "bookmark" i really mean that i just found the drawing, not made it.