About - CompuCat

Hi! In true 90's fashion, I am Alex (aka compucat), and you've found my homepage/project repository. I like to make things: music, hardware, software, food, and perhaps a little hilarity in the moments in between. As of October 2023, I'm currently dabbling in: TASBot, home maintenance, audio engineering best practices, fribbling, medical device design, and countless other things.

You can usually find me by my username online, but it's been taken by others on some services. If you'd like to get in contact, I'm usually listening here:

Discord (compucat) - Use this for quick things. DMs out of the blue are inherently a bit suspicious, though - either use email or write a compelling message. :)
Email ([email protected]) - Use this for longer things. Unless this is taken over by spammers, I should get any message you send here pretty quickly.
XMPP ([email protected]) - oldschool, heck yeah. Secure (OMEMO please), but I'm not always available - partly because I am a terrible sysadmin. Contact me elsewhere first.

For convenience, here's some of my other presences:

This website
YouTube (CompuCat) - Place to dump video.
Twitch.tv (CompuCat) - For occasions where I livestream.
Mastodon ([email protected]) - Home of quick in-the-moment thoughts, when I bother. I usually also post when there's a new blog entry.
GitLab (compucat) - Code, code, and more code.
GitHub (compucat) - When I can't GitLab.
Keybase (compucat) - For identity verification purposes.
Reddit (the-real-compucat) - Just reddit, nothing special.
GBATemp (CompuCat) - I don't use this much, but here I am.
Twitter (therealcompucat) - meh. It's Twitter.
SoundCloud (CompuCat) - I used to dump audio here, not so much these days.

One other thing: much of the initial framework of this homepage borrows from my good friend Ash's site; thanks very much for that! (Go check out this page's source code, if you like.