First and foremost, this is not an article designed to convince you to use Linux. Frankly, I don’t think it’s entirely beneficial to try and convince you of that much. Rather, I want to take a look at the things that make Linux and other Open Source or otherwise “niche”1 operating systems appealing to myself and folks with similar sensibilities. I have been using Linux for well over a decade at this point.
About Lucy Vin
Lucy Vin is a non-binary anarchist, linux engineer, and photographer.
She is a systems engineer with an eight-year background in linux administration and development. She lives in the Pacific Northwest where she works on projects including digital research, communication, community skill-building, and art.
Recruiters can contact her here. Recruiter emails without the following information will be ignored:
- The specific company you are recruiting for
- The actual job specifications (stack, job duties, salary range)
- The employer's trans healthcare policy
The Rambling Thoughts of One Nonbinary Trans Woman in 2023
I posted this to the Fediverse today and wanted to archive it here as well. I’ve been mulling over these thoughts for awhile and I think finally managed to massage them into a mostly coherent stream of thought. So I present it here without edit nor embellishment, enjoy.
I’m often reminded of - and both scared and empowered by - the fact that culture, history, and politics are not stagnant.
Quick Tech Note: Sidekiq Livenes Probe
Recently, working on a migration project where a portion of the stack was built in ruby, I needed to determine a small and dependency-less way of implementing a liveness probe/health check for sidekiq. After coming across a number of posts detailing a gem I could include as a dependency, I decided to take a stab at creating something a bit simpler. For a number of reasons, I don’t love introducing new dependencies to a stack, especially when it comes to production-grade code.
Warped World (an SCP Roleplaying game) Preview
I’ve spent the past month or three working on a pet project I’d been mulling over for years. I have to admit, I am a huge fan of the SCP-wiki and all of its various tales, anomalies, and groups of interest. As a piece of collaborative emergent fiction, it’s absolutely amazing to me. I particularly find myself enamored by the numerous canons woven together, from cyberpunk dystopia, to cultic nightmare apocalypse.