Interests
A collection of things I enjoy with my time.
Here, you can find some other things that are of interest to me.
Computer-Related
I have been using computers all my life, and I have always had a fascination with these machines. My love of computers has directly influenced my interests.
Software
As someone who uses NixOS, I am extremely interested in the Nix world.
- Nix language/package manager
- nixpkgs, a collection of Nix expressions for building packages, including packages required for the NixOS operating system
- The home-manager project, for managing your home directory dotfiles in a Nix-y way.
I have made several contributions to home-manager:
- Refactor the mbsync/isync configuration module for greater control over how email is fetched.
- Add a configuration module for mu, an email indexing and searching program.
In addition, as I enjoy C programming, but enjoy the type-correctness of Haskell, Rust has been of particular interest for me.
Hardware
Also, as a Computer Engineer, I am also thoroughly interested by the hardware side of things too.
As far as computer/CPU architectures are concerned, I am interested in RISC-V.
During the spring semester of 2021, I will be conducting research in this area, in collaboration with Alexander Lukens.
Athletics
To stay fit and healthy, I regularly:
- Go on runs several miles long
- Practice Tang Soo Do
- 3rd Degree Black Belt
Languages
I have learned Spanish to a near fluent capacity.
I also started learning Swedish, while studying abroad at Lunds Tekniska Högskola.
Music
Throughout much of my life, I played the oboe. During school, I have not had much time to practice, but my passion for performing music has never left me.
Multimedia
I enjoy television just as much as the next person.
Some of my favorite shows are:
- Altered Carbon
- Doom Patrol
- Titans (2018)
- Samurai Jack
- Star Trek
- The only I have not watched is the original series.
- The Umbrella Academy
- Watchmen