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---
title: "about"
template: "about.html"
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<img src="https://seccdn.libravatar.org/avatar/60676663f4ef6962ce3619df033ff144?s=128&d=identicon" style="float:left; margin: 1rem;" alt="Photo of me"/> Hey, I'm {% soaosed() %}soaos{% end %}, a software developer and "artist", perpetually trying to do something interesting.
I'm currently living in Waterloo, Ontario. I went to college here and decided to stick around because I wuv it so much.
I've been messing around with computers for a very long time. I feel very lucky to have the skillset that I do. I feel empowered to push back against the hegemonic and unfun state that the digital world has entered. Being able to self-host most of the services I depend on makes me very happy.
## 💼 My Work
The darkness peeled back {{ age() }} years ago and I tumbled out, scared and confused; I became a software engineer and remained that way.
I do full stack development for my day job. It may come as a shock, but I don't particularly enjoy doing web dev outside of work, and I think this helps me continue to enjoy my personal projects in other areas, such as native desktop application and video game development.
Check out my [projects page](/projects) to see all the stuff I'm working on!
## 🥺 BE MY FRIEND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
If you want to do something cool together, or just shoot the shit about whatever, feel free to send me an email at [soaos@soaos.dev](mailto:soaos@soaos.dev) or (if you're a cool guy) an instant message via Jabber/XMPP at [soaos@chat.soaos.dev](xmpp:soaos@chat.soaos.dev). I'm always excited to meet like-minded and passionate people.
## ❤️ Some Stuff I Like
### > 🎶 Music
I listen to a lot of different kinds of (rock) music. Recently I've been listening to a lot of post-hardcore, post-rock, and alternative rock. Big fan of prog too. Forgive me for reductively labeling these albums because I know a lot of them are way more complex than a narrow subgenre.
#### > > Progressive Rock
This is the Glasshouse - 867
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarging Ms. Leading
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Bear Ghost - jiminy
#### > > Alternative
Willy Rodriguez - wetdream
Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
#### > > Post-Rock
We Lost the Sea - Departure Songs
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
If These Trees Could Talk - Above the Earth, Below the Sky
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