Hi! My name's Arsalan, but I prefer to go by Aeri.

I'm a tinkerer, hacker, developer, artist, author, text editor fanatic, system failure enthusiast and free software aficionado from the United Kingdom. Technically, I guess you could call me a software engineer. At least... that's what my Bachelor's degree says.

You can find me at:

Bluesky (@aeriavelocity.dev)
Fediverse (@aeriavelocity@tech.lgbt)
Codeberg
GitHub
YouTube
Or you can email me (theskyiszerolimit560@proton.me)

I enjoy screwing around with computers and code and software and virtual machines instead of actually getting any work done. When I am working, though, I'm usually making games, modding games, writing websites, writing not websites, and pretending to be good at drawing. I kid, I have fun drawing even if I'm bad at it.

I've been using Arch Linux on my daily driver for a while now; the last time I dual-booted with Windows was back in the Windows 7 days. I've also got an iMac that I have lying around which I threw Ubuntu on, because Apple only let it run upward of macOS Catalina. Not a huge problem, because it's not like I need OS X. (OS X is a cooler name, fight me) And of course, I've got my Steam Deck, running the awesome Bazzite from Universal Blue, which I would probably be daily driving if I didn't like Arch so much. I've gotten so used to the "Arch Way™" it's unreal.

Articles

Sometimes I like writing things for no reason at all. So obviously it goes here! These are written in Markdown and converted on-the-fly using Marked and a JSON database, because that's about the best I can do on a static site with regards to hosting. It also means sharing these is annoying as bricks because you can't generate OpenGraph tags for dynamic content from a static website. When I can self-host, I'm gonna be unstoppable, just you wait.

Unless otherwise specified, all articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.