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Hellouw, you’ve found your way to my webbed site apparently.

I’m Vanessa, aka cyclopentane and/or pentane online. I’m a hacker with a focus on low-level software engineering and applied physics stuff, with a dark past as a theoretical physicist.

See this page for a bunch of my current and past projects.

Some of my current interests:

• software engineering
  • practicing Rustacean, aspiring Haskellist (but also some julia for scientific computing prototyping)
  • low-level OS development
    • one day i’m gonna live in a remote cabin in the woods and write my own RISC-V OS from scratch
  • FPGAs (with FOSS toolchains)
  • programming language theory
  • network engineering
  • cybersecurity
  • Nix/NixOS
    • robotnix maintainer
  • digital politics
• applied physics (especially in aerospace engineering and DSP)
  • avionics software for planes and drones
  • applied statistics, filter theory (kalman filters etc.)
  • software-defined radios (proud HackRF One owner since 2018)
  • applied geometric algebra (bivectors ftw)
• linguistics
  • some languages I like: french, mandarin, hebrew, quenya, lojban
• books (hard sci-fi and fantasy mainly)

My favourite food is asbestos burger with bisphenol A seasoning.

me on the internet

• codeberg: cyclopentane
• github: cyclic-pentane
• fedi: cyclopentane
• (former) uni-heidelberg thphys: ~hollmeier

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