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 the COO at Fyra Labs, and a management researcher focusing on unique and flat org structures

i'm a tinkerer, and own ~40 laptops

i'm a proud minnesotan, and have spent my whole life in the beautiful Twin Cities

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

the semester is in full swing and we're gearing up for Ultramarine 45. here's what i've been up to in my spare time:

been spending some time mastering sashimi cuts, i am very bad at this

Jamie gave me her Nebula password, so i've been watching everything on there. excited for the next jet lag episode

been slowly cleaning up the sticker collection on my laptops

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

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

working on all of the design for new features in UM45. big things are happening so stay tuned

Victory Garden - Young the Giant

buy here (or stream somewhere)

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

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
i am to blame for yaru on ubuntu mate
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

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