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Hello, I'm Mapniv. Want to learn something about me? Read on.

I love creating things. With programming not only can I create new worlds but also the toos are free. This is why I like programming. Other than that I like going for walks. I feel especially well in forests. Bacause of schizoid presonality disorder I don't feel emotions like most people do. I'm cold and detached person. Does it mean that I don't care? Well, no. The only reason I care for others is decision I made. I don't know why... I also have schizophrenia but I don't suffer any symptoms. On the other side in my country I am considered a disabled person and receive a disability pension. This means I can work on open source projects full time. My favourite composer is Greg Dombrowski (Secession Studios). Divination is the soundtrack I most relate to.

• To become a wise person
• To die in peace

• Nationality: Polish
• Age: Young adult

• Operatnig system: Void GNU/Linux
• Text editor: Neovim
• Programming languages: C, Haskell

• As a child I had no computer
• At primary school I enjoyed a program where you had to write some commands for a wizard to do. You could move the wizard, place blocks etc.

• In Gymnasium I had my first contact with HTML
• Some time later me and my siblings got a laptop. I installed Code::Blocks and started learning C++
• Later I switched to C, if I recall correctly it was because C is faster
• At some point the laptop broke, I forgot about programming for a while
• I got a tablet at some point and was programming on it. Pain
• I graduated gymnasium with good grades, and it was time to choose middle school profile. I chose math-phisics-IT because I liked math
• During holidays my mother died from cancer, I was 16 or 17 back then
• Someone who also had diffifult childhood when they were young decided to help me. They started sending me 300 PLN a month until the graduation

• First year of middle school: We were learning programming. Everyone was using C++ except for me, I was using C. I tried to optimize everything. The teacher once told me that during exam no one will care how fast is my program, they only thing they will care about is whether it works
• Before holidays began I had enought money to buy a new laptop. It costed 1600 PLN and had 2 core processor, 8 GB RAM and 240 GB SSD. It had no OS. During a lesson I asked IT teacher whether I could download Linux. They agreed and I burned it to a CD. Yes, CD, I had no idea how big Linux was. I used a netinstall Ubuntu version as it was less than 300MB. When I returned home I proceeded to install Ubuntu. I was follwoing the tutorial on my tablet. Everything worked except wifi, I couldn't connect to a network. Little did I know that at the time my laptop wasn't fully supported by Linux. I connected to wifi using my tablet and used USB tethering. Then I finished the installation. I used this approach whenever I needed to install something
• Second year of middle school: We were learning Excel, I was pretty good at it. However I couldn't train at home as I had no Windows machine
• At some point wifi was fixed. I could use my laptop normally
• Third year of middle school: We were learning Access, again I couldn't train at home. Everyone but me used GUI to work with databases. I was writing SQL code. I found GUI approach confusing (perhaps that was an omen)
• I couldn't finish any Access task on time and couldn't finish it at home so I almost got a failing grade, however teacher seeing that I was actually doing something (unlike other students) gave me an additional mark so I didn't fail in the end.
• Covid started and with it remote learning (hated it)
• Final exam: I scored 40% and that was more than 75% of the people taking the exam. Unfortunatelly I got no points for Excel problem as I wrote that the answer was saved in a .xls file while it had a .xlsx extension

• Enrolled at local university of technology, initially there were no remote learning but when it changed I intentionally failed the first semester
• Ran vim for the first time, closed the terminal as I couldn't quit it
• In 2021 standatd support for Ubuntu 16.04 ended. I decided to try Arch
• Due to a kernel panic I switched back to Ubuntu, this time 18.04
• Read an article about vim+tmux combo, started using neovim, I didn't use tmux as I didn't like the key bindings
• Another kernel bug, decided to abandon Ubuntu, found Void Linux Decided to go for a manual install. Installed Openbox with custom configuration, configured URxvt to look like normal terminal
• Installed and configured tmux
• Discovered that Lua table indexing starts at one :(
• Discovered Haskell, first language that managed to impress me
• Decided to write my own embeddable scripting language with arrays starting at zero and syntax inspired by Haskell