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Hello, I am Rutherther or Ruther for short.

I am currently studying electrical engineering on a university.
Apart from electrical engineering I am also interested
in computer science. I like open-source and many of the
ideas of free software.

## Interests
I am interested in and digital
design and verification, with more focus on the
verification. The only thing I don't like
about this sphere is that almost everything is proprietary.
Apart from that I am also drawn by digital communications
theory.

I like the ideas of declarative and reproducible software builds
(specifically Nix, Guix). I use Guix System as my daily driver and
NixOS on my VPS. (NixOS has systemd hardening built-in
to many services, while Guix System doesn't have
hardening built-in. There is least-authority-wrapper,
but that is unfortunately not used much) I try to help people
with their systems in the #guix room on libera.chat.
Although it can be repetitive sometimes, I also
feel like I am still gaining insight into Guix
like this. It's a least resistant approach for me,
because I would be procrastinating studying Guix on
its own.

## My projects

My open-source projects are available [here](https://git.ditigal.xyz/~ruther)
and mirrored on [sr.ht](https://git.sr.ht/~ruther) and [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/Rutherther).
If you want to discuss development of any of those projects or get any help regarding
them,
please see the [mailing lists](https://lists.ditigal.xyz/~ruther).
If you want to report issues, see [todo](https://todo.ditigal.xyz/~ruther).
You won't be able to create an account, but you can always submit issues
via your e-mail.

## Blog

On this site I am planning on publishing some blog
posts mainly related to Guix or comparisons of Guix and Nix
as I have knowledge about both of those probjects. It's possible
the scope will get bigger in the future.

## Contact
Apart from my e-mail you can reach me for most of the time
on IRC libera.chat as rutherther or
on Matrix [@ruther:ditigal.xyz](https://matrix.to/#/@ruther:ditigal.xyz). As a fallback
I am also still using Discord as @rutherther,
but I will stop using it at one point.