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]

what i'm up to right now

personal projects

i'm mostly resting a bit between FOSSY and the start of the semester, here's what i've been looking into from comfy places, beaches, and coffee shops:

transactional update! an immutability system using btrfs snapshots of package manager operations

self managing organizations, see Lee & Edmondson (2017) and Lawrence & Poliquin (2023).

sidenote: if you work at an org that's flat, self managing, a co-op, or otherwise unique, please send me an email!

fyra+ultramarine

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

bootc is almost working

we're also starting to plan for UM45, i'm really excited to share some of the UX stuff we're plannng!

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/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 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

(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