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| Key       | Value             |
| --------- | ----------------- |
| Name      | Sebin             |
| Age       | 36                |
| Pronouns  | he/him            |
| Languages | 🇩🇪 (1st) 🇬🇧 (2nd) |

I'm a dude from the south of Germany pretending to be a dragon online.

I'm a web developer at heart and love to make pretty and sleek websites (as you might have noticed). I started coding professionally right around the time HTML5 took off and kept at it ever since. You can take a look at some of my personal projects over on my [main home page].

My code repos[^gitrepos]:

- [GitHub]
- [GitLab]
- [Forgejo][selfgit]

Besides that I also love FOSS and use Arch Linux (btw) as my daily driver! Whenever I can I try to get involved and contribute translations to various tools and apps. I've been running Linux for the better part of the last 10 years, going from Linux Mint, to Manjaro and eventually pure Arch. It gave me a whole new appreciation for how computers work and being able to fully control my general computing experience (the privacy benefits are cool, too).

My tools of the trade:

| Software           | Notes                                                        |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Arch Linux         | Highly customizable rolling release Linux distribution       |
| GNOME              | Sleek, modern desktop environment with solid Wayland support |
| Firefox            | It's not Chromium                                            |
| Visual Studio Code | My code editor of choice                                     |

When I'm not doing development work, I'm getting my hands dirty in self-hosting. Services I'm running include:

- [Navidrome] (music streaming)
- [Jellyfin] (movies & TV shows)
- [Bookstack] (knowledge base)
- [Owncast] (live streaming)
- [Wallabag] (read-it-later pile of shame)
- [Nextcloud] (cloud storage & collaboration)
- [Immich] (Google Photos without the Google parts)
- [AdGuard Home] (DNS Sinkhole for ads and trackers)
- [Forgejo] (light-weight Git forge)

As for the pretending to be a dragon online thing: Yes, I'm one of those furries. Been one for the past 20 years. Also hella gay 🏳️‍🌈

I love video games since I can remember. My first console was the NES and it captivated my interest almost immediately. If I had to call my homebase, it'd be the SNES, though. Lots of good memories made with that one (lots of RPGs, like [Secret of Mana], [Secret of Evermore], [Illusion of Gaia], [Terranigma], [Chrono Trigger], [The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past]). But I'm no stranger to some absolute classics on other platforms like PlayStation and PC. I've also played a fair amount of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV with an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and both the award-winning Heavensward and Stormblood expansions up to level 70 for free with no restrictions on playtime.

Video games also shaped a lot of my music tastes. I'm listening to tons of video game soundtracks, so I'm pretty flexible in terms of genres (rock, ambient, alternative, techno, city pop, classical, funk, trip hop, downtempo, synthwave, dark synth, chiptune, to name a few). Some of my favorite artists include: [Nobuo Uematsu], [Masayoshi Soken], [Yoko Shimomura], [Yasunori Mitsuda], [Toby Fox], [The Midnight], [+TEK], [Dominic Ninmark].

[main home page]: https://sebin-nyshkim.net

[GitHub]: https://github.com/SebinNyshkim
[GitLab]: https://gitlab.com/SebinNyshkim
[selfgit]: https://git.sebin-nyshkim.net/SebinNyshkim

[Navidrome]: https://www.navidrome.org/
[Jellyfin]: https://jellyfin.org/
[Bookstack]: https://www.bookstackapp.com/
[Owncast]: https://owncast.online/
[Wallabag]: https://wallabag.org/
[Nextcloud]: https://nextcloud.com/
[Immich]: https://immich.app/
[AdGuard Home]: https://adguard.com/adguard-home/overview.html
[Forgejo]: https://forgejo.org/

[Secret of Mana]: https://www.igdb.com/games/secret-of-mana
[Secret of Evermore]: https://www.igdb.com/games/secret-of-evermore
[Illusion of Gaia]: https://www.igdb.com/games/illusion-of-gaia
[Terranigma]: https://www.igdb.com/games/terranigma
[Chrono Trigger]: https://www.igdb.com/games/chrono-trigger
[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past]: https://www.igdb.com/games/the-legend-of-zelda-a-link-to-the-past

[Nobuo Uematsu]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Uematsu
[Masayoshi Soken]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Soken
[Yoko Shimomura]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Shimomura
[Yasunori Mitsuda]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunori_Mitsuda
[Toby Fox]: https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/music
[The Midnight]: https://themidnight.bandcamp.com/music
[+TEK]: https://soundcloud.com/plrusek-chan
[Dominic Ninmark]: https://www.youtube.com/c/DominicNinmark

*[FOSS]: Free & Open Source Software
*[NES]: Nintendo Entertainment System
*[SNES]: Super NES

[^gitrepos]: In case you're wondering: most of my repos are personal projects, just for me, and don't need to be developed out in the open.
