# whoami?

A complex bundle of atoms that happened to arrange itself in this specific configuration of Eva! I'm a linux aficionado, a huge fan of Vim, and really like computers - breaking them, breaking into them, fixing them after I've broken them, making art and electronic music on them, and talking to them (with code, of course). I especially love code - this website has been a labor of love for many years. Making an "OS" from just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript has been really neat.

I also love gaming in all of its forms and spend a lot of time in space or worlds full of magic - No Man's Sky is my #1. I also like to make games - my husband and I are currently working on a hex-based tabletop strategy & role-playing game. It's been a lot of fun designing worlds, characters, and lore. :) And finally, something else super cool: I won first place in the Aether Wars Phase III competition in 2019!

I love to learn and teach people about the things I've learned, especially:

how to take things apart to understand their base functions,
how to put those things back together after making the mess of discovery,
the philosophy behind how things work and figuring out why things are the way they are,
how words and other forms of communication influence people,
digital spaces, and how those spaces influence people's interactions,
oh and computers...I like computers. Have I mentioned that already? :)

Aside from that, I like to paint miniatures, work on embedded programming projects, fiddle with ASM, C, C++, Rust, and Python, look at malware and threat feeds, OSINT, and make music with analog synths. I'm also working on getting my Amateur Radio license this year - if all goes well, my callsign will be up here before the fall.

Thanks for checking my website out - feel free to contact me on any of those channels if you'd like to get in touch.

# StrengthsQuest

☆ Learner: I am a firm believer in continuous improvement, and the process of learning excites me more than anything. I am energized by mastery, working to learn more about whatever interests me every day.
☆ Intellection: Thinking about thinking - I'm constantly thinking about something, whether it's a new idea, something I've read, or a new challenge I'd like to try. An introspective mental hum is a constant in my life.
☆ Input: I'm a collector of thoughts, things, and information. Inquisitive by nature, and excited by the world's infinite variety and complexity. I try to remember everything and anything, just in case it proves valuable in the future.
☆ Ideation: I love ideas - all of them - whether they're bad, good, strange, or obvious. I enjoy taking in the world we all know and turning it around to see it from a strange, but strangely enlightening, angle. "That's an interesting way to think about that, Eva," is a phrase I often hear. Most of the time it ends up working out, too. ;)
☆ Strategic: I'm adept at seeking out patterns and problems and cut through to find the best solution. I'm not intimidated by complexity; I revel in it.