Arkane Systems / Alistair Young

Who am I?

Who is this Alistair Young person, anyway?

A science fiction writer. An open-source software developer. An entrepreneur. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!

e-mail (personal)

avatar@arkane-systems.net

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Fediverse (Mastodon)

@cerebrate@social.arkane-systems.net

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Free as in Markets and as in Speech...

...but not as in beer.

'cause we've all got to make a living, right?

It's not compulsory, by any means, but if you enjoy or find useful my software, my writing, or anything else I do, throwing some money in the tip jar to encourage me to keep on providing them and to help defray my various costs would be very much appreciated.

There are many options:

If you like my writing, apart from buying my books, you could sponsor it on Patreon or LiberaPay.

Become a Patron!
If you use my software, you could sponsor a project on GitHub, or buy me a coffee:
Or just donate via PayPal:

GitHub

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p-mail

Arkane Systems
1707 N Burns St.
Wichita
KS 67203
United States of America

Pronouns

Alistair is an illeist.

As such, Alistair strongly prefers that you do not use pronouns to refer to Alistair. Alistair himself may occasionally indulge in the perpendicular pronoun, but, being Alistair, that is Alistair's privilege.

Random Bytes

This is the place where I post my notes on things technical. Expect an eclectic mass of bits and pieces relating to Windows, Linux, WSL (and my fairly popular systemd-on-WSL products, genie and bottle-imp), home automation (using Home Assistant, Node-RED, and other technologies), electronics, 3D printing (using the Creality Ender 5 Plus), and whatever else I happen to get up to.

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Quick Links

bottle-imp software improve WSL's systemd support
genie software run systemd on early WSL versions

Secure Communication

My Keybase profile (probably the best option)

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