About

Hi. My real name is Aura. Friends also call me V - surprisingly, no relation to Cyberpunk 2077, comes from the first letter of my nickname - can't really blame them. I mean, have you tried to call out "vddcore" in online games quickly enough?

I am a computer programmer, but I don't limit myself to just programming. It's boring when you do the same thing over and over again - I also do software and hardware reverse engineering, electronic circuit design, 3D printing, storywriting, poetry, lots of nerdy stuff. Whatever it takes to express myself.

What I use to do my job

My main tools of trade when doing the usual things are JetBrains Rider, the C# language and Avalonia. I love designing pretty, minimal UIs and creating the best user experience possible. The focus on content and an efficient way to present it, instead of everything else around it. I do "the nerdy stuff" with everything else, to keep me out of burnout's way - compiler design, reversing of old printer control chips and re-purposing LCD screens from other devices for my own projects, fixing old consoles for myself and other people, creating vibrant lights synced to audio... Anything that uses electricity is a way to let the creative and logical me go wild.

Personal preferences

I quite like the colors blue, pink and green. I really like visual minimalism, but you already knew that if you read the above paragraph or noticed something about this very website's theme.

My favorite number is... any number I feel like in any given moment... I guess? My favorite sauce is ketchup+mayo mix, sometimes BBQ. I love the freedoms of the MIT license, but given its double-edged sword nature I've learned to love the GPL and EU-PL more. I prefer dark color schemes over the light ones for work - they are just more visually appealing to me.

Talkies? Projects?

Fancy a chat? Feel free to hit me up over at Discord. You can reach me via my usual handle: @vddcore - although I doubt corpses make for good conversation partners.

You can find my GitHub profile with projects I've made during my lifetime here.