Hey, I'm nedia, or Aiden, and sometimes Langs.
I live in New Zealand, I'm part Māori, part English. I was born in NZ, but grew up in London, and I've recently returned to NZ. I live in the Far North - I might be one of a handful of people who know how to use a computer in this remote part of the world. Sure feels that way sometimes.
I've been doing software for about 6 years now, starting w/ Java during an apprenticeship, and then PHP for 2 years, on spaghetti legacy code. I had a lot of fun writing a CLI application that interfaced with AWS to spawn EC2's to run large data conversions whilst I was working with PHP. Since then I've dabbled in some C#, recently, Rust, and lots of web dev in between. SvelteKit has been my favourite way to write websites recently. I have plans to write an open source CRM for healthcare / addictions in Go.
I'm a hardcore tinkerer, I've broken my personal environment more times than I can count, and a commercial test environment or two (trying not to do that anymore.) I've been using Linux on & off for about 3 years now. Enamored w/ Silverblue right now.
I have a mild form of Tourettes, ticking along I like to say, so I struggle with an unhinged brain sometimes. These days I tend to volunteer - I work with a small not for profit at the moment, managing their IT & teaching once a week, and in my spare time I've been working on passion projects so it made sense to get into open source. I've contributed some v minor changes to Pop Shell since it's a tool I can't live without.
Tenā koutou.
Ngā mihi,
Aiden :)