about me

My name is Vael. Professionally, I’ve been a full stack web developer since 2020. I like to program, make digital art, 3D print things, and mess around with synthesizers. Most of what I do in my free time is in pursuit of game development. I’m a big advocate for free software and I’ve been using Linux full time since 2022.

my links

github.com - gitlab.com - itch.io - gamejolt.com - roblox.com

software i use for everything

I’ve been using NixOS for awhile. It’s quite nice. You can see my flakes on my github. Here is my hyfetch as is tradition:

I really like neovim, but I keep it pretty simple, I use very few plugins and the config is mostly default, that said, I really prefer these settings:

  programs.neovim = {
    enable = true;
    viAlias = true;
    vimAlias = true;
    defaultEditor = true;
    plugins  = with pkgs.vimPlugins; [
      nvim-lspconfig
      nvim-treesitter.withAllGrammars
      nvim-web-devicons
      catppuccin-nvim
      telescope-nvim
      telescope-coc-nvim
      coc-nvim
      coc-clangd
    ];
    extraConfig = ''
      set nowrap
      set number
      set tabstop=2
      set shiftwidth=2
      set expandtab
      set softtabstop=2
      colorscheme catppuccin-macchiato
      inoremap <silent><expr> <CR> coc#pum#visible() ? coc#pum#confirm() : "\<C-g>u\<CR>\<c-r>=coc#on_enter()\<CR>"
    '';
  };

I think catppuccin is a very pretty colorscheme, I use it for everything: I even use it for this website!

software i use for game development

My list of preferred programs for game development:

• Godot
• Blender
• Krita
• Aseprite
• Bitwig Studio
• Gnu Compiler Collection

I’ve also used Unity3D, Unreal, Love2D, Pico-8, TIC-80, Roblox, and Haskell’s SDL bindings

software i use for web development

I generally also work in NixOS for web dev with the aid of docker containers. You can see how I set up this website using hugo on Setting Up This Blog Professionally I have the most experience in Vue 2 and 3, with a RESTful API of some sort. In the past that API has been written in Python Flask, Groovy Grails, Java Spring, Hasura GraphQL, or Node Express. Generally its not too hard to wrap your head around a web framework once you’ve learned the fundamentals. I’ve dabbled a little in React, Obsidian, jQuery, Elixir + Phoenix, Elm, or plain old javascript, css, and html. I very much like Elm, Obisidian, and Phoenix, I am a functional programmer at heart.