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. Academically speaking, I'm a software engineer, according to my degree.

You can find me at:

Bluesky (@aeriavelocity.dev)
Fediverse (@aeriavelocity@tech.lgbt)
Codeberg
GitHub
YouTube (main/gamedev channel)
YouTube (secondary/memeposting channel)
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 and later Arch on, because Apple only let it run upward of macOS Catalina. Why Arch? Because the only way to use that old crusty NVIDIA GeForce GT (not even GTX!) 755M is with the 470 drivers, which is community-packaged on the AUR but isn't available at all on Ubuntu 24.04, and I'm not doing 25.10. Not a huge problem, because it's not like I need OS X. (OS X is a cooler name, fight me)

And I've also 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.

I'm thinking of doing NixOS in the future. I dunno, it's a maybe. Nix is pretty cool.

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.

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