Kris Yotam
(
profile
(mbti INTJ)
(enneagram 5w6)
(strongest-aptitude logic)
(orientation scientist-and-believer)
(philosophy anti-institutional free-software self-sovereign)
(os arch-linux)
(wm dwm)
(shell fish)
(editor nvim)
(forge
sr.ht))
(what-i-do
(systems-programming C linux-kernel plan9)
(mathematics pure-math logic foundations)
(security offensive-security pentesting ctf)
(trading algorithmic-trading futures tsmom)
(writing essays papers long-form research)
(natural-philosophy alchemy mysticism religious-studies))
(origin-story
(started-with windows-xp age-8 html-css)
(then ubuntu dual-boot broke-windows learned-linux)
(then arch-linux suckless dwm-st-dmenu from-source)
(then plan-9 9front the-operating-system-that-changes-everything)
(then C k-and-r xv6 systems-programming-proper)
(then math lang-basic-mathematics proof-writing)
(then security hackthebox oscp red-team)
(then trading shiloh-engine micro-futures from-scratch)
(then natural-philosophy alchemy-as-science not-pseudoscience))
(intellectual-framework
(model modern-professor)
(meaning self-funded-academic research-plus-teaching outside-institutions)
(method research create publish teach)
(income crowdfunded tiered-access sponsorship)
(influences
gwern (deep-research long-form reference-density)
luke-smith (academic-turned-creator anti-system free-software)
simon-willison (prolific-dev open-source github-sponsorship)
ramanujan (minimal-input maximal-output logic cross-field)
newton (if-it-doesnt-exist-build-it)))
(
stack
(languages C python fish-shell)
(systems arch-linux 9front gentoo)
(infra self-hosted nginx tor tailscale)
(server stargate bare-metal 1tb)
(desktop moirai arrow-lake rx6800xt 4-monitors)
(laptop thinkpad artix blackarch)
(dotfiles
srice gnu-stow)
(deploy
sdeploy progs-csv))
(beliefs
(non-falsifiable-is-not-false)
(holistic-knowledge no-artificial-boundary)
(free-software-is-a-moral-imperative)
(memory-is-the-bottleneck drill-everything)
(workbooks-over-textbooks)
(the-file-is-the-source-of-truth)
(build-your-own-tools)
(structure-over-motivation))
(currently
(reading infinite-jest blood-meridian)
(building shiloh algo-trading-engine-in-c)
(studying lang-basic-mathematics theoretical-physics)
(training oscp hackthebox omniscient)
(programming code-crafters k-and-r xv6 plan9-from-user-space)
(planning ninetimes-org plan9-newspaper))
