About me

I'm a not-so-average guy interested in a wide array of technologies. I'm also interested in various topics such as psychology and human behaviour, our motives, thinking, beliefs and such. Not many people know but I'm even interested in the mating habits of bumblebees. Just kidding.

As for my life philosophy, I appreciate freedom and I think it's mandatory in every areas of our life, and computing is not an exception. I want to be more and better day by day in everything that is important to me. I try to live a happy life in a way of not hurting anybody, but growing, sharing and making the world a better place for everyone.

I live in the future and feel excited to be born into this age of advanced technology. On the other hand, I also feel stressed about the future of our Earth. The short sightedness of humanity can consume our planet which is a daily concern of mine. I try to live a lifestyle that is both healtly and minimizes my ecological footprint by walking and biking over short distances, using public transportation extensively, eating mostly vegetarian food, drinking filtered tap water instead of bottled water, using lots of bioproducts, selectively collecting waste and using cloth bags instead of disposable plastic bags. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life. As for planned obsolescence, I think it should be prohibited on the government level but I don't have high hopes for that since I have a rather peculiar opinion about the government.

I've never bought anything from Microsoft or Apple, never will and take pride of it. I think that the closed nature of their products and their lock-in strategies are not good for consumers on the long run. I use Free and Open Source Software, buy Open Hardware whenever I can and use Linux for pretty much everything.

I consider myself fairly stubborn. If a project truly captures my interest then I'll eventually make it a reality no matter how big shitstorm life throws at me. I do whatever it takes to get there.

Also, I'm very concerned about the quality of everything I do that is important to me.

As a last word, here's a beautiful quote that I feel very close to:

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt