SSyl
I take things apart to see how they work.
Sometimes I put them back together better.
About
I'm a Canadian-American with a habit of taking things apart to see how they work. I've been at it since I was sneaking Doom onto my grandparents' DOS machine they used for accounting. They didn't know. It ran great.
Professionally (if you can call me that), I started out in web development and QA, worked as a system administrator managing servers and databases, and have been building PCs since I was a kid. These days I mostly write game mods - digging into game engines, writing tools, and occasionally patching the modding frameworks themselves when something breaks.
I also run a homelab and a couple of VPSs. I tell myself it's to save money, but usually it costs more in time spent and often in dollars too, but where's the fun if you don't make it your own at least a little bit? Jack of all trades, master of null (or nil?).
Things I Do
- Game Modding
- Lua, C++, C# across UE4SS, SKSE, BepInEx - mostly survival and RPG games. Sometimes patching the frameworks themselves.
- Reverse Engineering
- Poking at undocumented APIs, game engines, and keyboard firmware to figure out what makes them tick.
- Homelab / Self-Hosting
- Costs more than it saves, but that's not the point.
- Sysadmin
- Servers, databases, VPSs. Paid to do it, then kept doing it at home for free.
- Home Automation
- Home Assistant, smart home integrations, making lights do things they probably shouldn't.
- AI Tooling
- Building MCP servers that bridge AI with debuggers, game engines, and dev tools.
- PC Building
- Since I was a kid. Still can't leave a build alone for more than six months.
- Gaming
- Survival games, RPGs, anything I can mod. Playing a game stock feels like leaving the house without keys.
- Customizing Everything
- Editor themes, desktop skins, folder icons, keyboard layers. If it has defaults, they're wrong.