hi, i'm jaiden, and this is a website!

about me

i make computers do funny things

i'm jaiden riordan (i go by {nothing}neko on the internet)

i'm a tinkerer and college student by day, and the coo at fyra labs by all other times

please direct any american express mailers and other mail to [email protected]

what i'm up to right now

personal projects

i just reinstalled my m1 mac and switched from Homebrew to Flox, it's pretty fucking cool, Nix but with TOML definitions

i'm currently working on Jadeite, a custom bootc image just for me. great use for the aforementioned Flox actually

i'm currently migrating services hosted on this domain from bare Docker Compose to Quadlets (podman containers defined by systemd units) which is super cool, i love modern linux tech

fyra+ultramarine

my usual terra maintenance with help from Owen. i'm the proud maintainer of arduino-app-lab, helium-browser-bin, and vicinae

doing some release engineering work for um44

also locked in on building Fyra Stack, our new hosting provider that won't suck

album i'm listening to right now

月に向かって撃て (Moonshot) - 星街すいせい (Hoshimachi Suisei)

stream or buy here

games i'm playing

(left to right) Portal 2, Signalis, Ultrakill

buy me a coffee/vodka/chromebook

if you appreciate what i do, consider buying me a drink, or perhaps a chromebook https://github.com/sponsors/nothingneko

stuff i've done and fun facts

i own ~50 laptops (as of dec 27 2024)
i work on ultramarine linux–primarily releng and hwe work,i'm why we're in pi imager
speaking of pi, i am a huge rpi fangirl, it's how i got into computing
ubuntu mate—i am to blame for yaru on it
made some octii themes, anyone remember octii?
i got a centos stream desktop to run as an ostree, i think i was the first to do this, it was before ublue did at least
this site used to be a html port of a site written for the gopher protocol. why? fuck if i know
i'm a founding member of Fyra Labs

(these are a few of) my favourite things

the tiktaalik (favourite fish)
good espresso
good green tea, usually hojicha
a controller clicky dpad and mushy buttons, see the 8bitdo pro 3 for something close
tactile mechanical switches, i daily drive a system76 launch with gazzew bobas (knockoff holy pandas)
pumpkin, #2 is pecan (favourite pies)
raspberry (favourite pi)
i am of the strong belief that the best type of pizza is saint paul/minnesota style, and that the only place to get it since savoy's in downtown closed is from carbone's, and only the original one