About me

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Hi there!

Hi there! I’m Camelia (sometimes abbreviated Cam or C4m), a proudly queer open-source developer and sysadmin based in Switzerland. I use she/they pronouns (both are equally fine).

In the past, I was known online under the pseudonym Twann, but I decided to get rid of it, because I’ve never really liked it (and also nobody knew how to pronounce it).

My background

I started to learn programming and computer science back in 2019, just before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, it started with a worry about my privacy, together with a wish to protect my data online. Through my own experiences, I then discovered the world of free and open source software. I rapidly embraced its philosophy, and soon after, decided to install my very first Linux distribution as my primary operating system.

I tried multiple distributions before completing my first Arch Linux installation in 2022. Back then, archinstall wasn’t as stable and as known as it is today, so I didn’t use it, which was a really big achievement for me at the time. Months later, I started learning about Artix Linux, a systemd-free version of Arch Linux. I decided to install it, and I’ve been using it for years after that. These days, I use Alpine Linux, which is a really nice and lightweight distribution based on musl, OpenRC and Busybox, and that is therefore one of the few Linux distributions that can’t be refered to as GNU/Linux (since it uses BusyBox instead of GNU coreutils).

The page you are reading is also served from a server running Alpine Linux ;)

My interests

I am currently passionate about the following topics:

This capsule

This gemini capsule contains my personal blog (also called a gemlog), on which I will post mainly about computers, technology, sysadmin stuff and open source software, but also about anything else that I am passionate about.