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'm getting started on my business research, i'm focusing on unique organizational structures, primarily flat orgs

i got really pissed off about terminals and built my own in like 2 days, jadeterm is real now. it's written in python with libadw and vte. it's buggy but it works. when it's less buggy i'll throw it on flathub.

i'm working on moving to bootc on some of my personal machines. i've spent the last couple months moving to the container workflow for development, with a lil flox mixed in. i've gotten it to the point where i realistically need 3 packages on my host, and everything else can be in a flatpak. i know distrbox exists but it's a half measure and i'd rather have flatpaks for my apps.

i upgraded my iPad to the beta, and it made it work so much better, been trying to use it more for general work and i'm deeply impressed at how far iPadOS has come. office on iPad is pretty close to the desktop version nowadays, which is super impressive.

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, we're almost there!

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

album i'm listening to right now

Victory Garden - Young the Giant

buy here (or stream somewhere)

games i'm playing

(left to right) Kerbal Space Program, Ultrakill, Katamari Demacy REROLL

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