Hey, I'm nedia, or Aiden, and sometimes Langs.
I live in New Zealand, I'm part Māori, part English. I was born in NZ, but grew up in
London, and I've recently returned to NZ. I live in the Far North - I might be one of
a handful of people who know how to use a computer in this remote part of the world. Sure
feels that way sometimes.
I've been doing software for about 6 years now, starting w/ Java during an
apprenticeship, and then PHP for 2 years, on spaghetti legacy code. I had a lot of fun
writing a CLI application that interfaced with AWS to spawn EC2's to run large data
conversions whilst I was working with PHP. Since then I've dabbled in some C#,
recently, Rust, and lots of web dev in between. SvelteKit has been my favourite way to
write websites recently. I have plans to write an open source CRM for healthcare /
addictions in Go.
I'm a hardcore tinkerer, I've broken my personal environment more times than I can
count, and a commercial test environment or two (trying not to do that anymore.) I've
been using Linux on & off for about 3 years now. Enamored w/ Silverblue right now.
I have a mild form of Tourettes, ticking along I like to say, so I struggle with an
unhinged brain sometimes. These days I tend to volunteer - I work with a small not for
profit at the moment, managing their IT & teaching once a week, and in my spare time
I've been working on passion projects so it made sense to get into open source.
I've contributed some v minor changes to Pop Shell since it's a tool I can't
live without.
Tenā koutou.
Ngā mihi,
Aiden :)