(this is me)

About me

• Main online usernames: tirimid, Tirimid, polytopelover
• Preferred pronouns: any
• Languages I understand: English, Russian
• Some things I like: Programming, cool design, math, electronics, writing, conlangs
• Some things I hate: Bloatware, planned obsolescence, the advertising industry
• Favorite operating systems: Gentoo Linux, Arch Linux
• Favorite programming languages: C, (minimal subset of) C++
• GitHub: tirimid
• GitLab: tirimid
• Codeberg: tirimid

Hello, I’m tirimid (sometimes Tirimid or polytopelover) and this is my personal website for publishing things I make - which means essays, guides, documentation, and so on. Whenever I create something that I want to put out into the world for others to see, I will probably create a page about it on this site. Obviously not everything I’ve ever made is something I’m comfortable with uploading here, so this is not a definitive catalog of my works.

I am strongly in favor of free software, privacy, and security. The source code to this website is available at its GitHub.

If you need to contact me for some reason, you can send an email to [email protected]. I usually check this mailbox at least once a day, but do not expect an immediate response.

Essays (incl. both informative and polemic)

• Abysmal State of “AI”: A short rant that roughly argues some of the thoughts I’ve had regarding “AI” for a while
• The Way School Uniforms Work is Garbage: A short essay rant about the (terrible) way school uniforms often work
• What was the First Rhythm Game?: A short historical work of research, trying to figure out what the first rhythm game was

Software

• BFC: A tiny brainfuck compiler that turns Brainfuck source input into GNU-as-compatible assembly output
• escl: A hyperminimalist privelege elevation program, similar to sudo or doas
• fs2di: A program for generating disk images from filesystem images
• ipa-translate: A Rust crate for translating ASCII text into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
• medioed: My personal mediocre text editor
• mincbuild: A minimal C(++) buildsystem which doesn’t require you to learn any new technology, like a DSL
• VVSML: A very simple markup language with fun syntax and utterly deranged features

Artistic written works

• The Sleeptalker Ritual: A ritualpasta-style thing about talking to spirits by doing an intentional possession of a person
• Quevish: A conlang based on semantic “evaluation” of a queue with a fairly regular and consistent syntax