about
Hello world
Name: Mateus Cezário Barreto.
Birth year: 2005.
Country: Brazil.
Backstory: A socially isolated 16yo boy installed Linux in a laptopt he got from his dad. Now here he is.
Personality:
Introverted, reclusive, often shy.
Normally prefers asynchronous communication over real-time chatting.
Secretly chuunibyo.
Maybe an otaku.
Hobbies:
Programming.
Listening to OST's. Choral Chambers btw. Also rest in peace River Boy.
Playing casual or indie games eventually, or watching people playing them. My nickname comes from Hollow Knight.
Cool:
Open source software and open knoweldge.
Linux. Using Artix btw.
C and Ruby.
GTK, with caveats.
Understanding thigs you use.
Not so cool:
Sleeping. But it's needed.
(Current) social media.
My links that almost no one would want to see:
Software I use (more here):
Artix Linux, the art of Linux.
Scroll, fork of Sway that makes my screen look like a big desk.
mle terminal text editor. I don't use IDEs.
No bar, no wallpapaer, no decoration, because I'm both minimalistic and lazy.
Occupations:
What else?
If you reached this part, let's talk a bit more deeper than the personal checklist.
I've never been the socially fit type of person. That's what some call "social battery" that rapdly draws off on each interaction, specially face-to-face interaction, and why I have decided to stay fairly away from social media, at least social media in its current state. Apart from useful content making, I see no point in exposing myself if not to nutrish real, deep bonds with people, and also no point in watching other people doing this. So places like Instagram and TikTok are just not my place. Even more niche platforms, like Reddit, are not, arguably.
On the other hand, interacting with people only for the so called "networking" seems maybe even more meaningless, although one could consider this, with reason, a shoot on the foot. A worthy shoot on the foot, I might say. I take many of those.
Despite my tendencies, though, I'm not strongly unsociable. Actually, even the most introverted persons can feel lonely, and crave to talk about what they like. It's just that more subtle and deep interactions are much more worthy than supperficial ones, I guess.
Anyway, being an introvert drove me into more self-centered hobbies, mostly involving computers. Programming is one of them, and I'd say programming is about talking to machines, and talking to machines feels strangely lighter than talking to people.
Some say the computer is just a medium separating users, or user and developer. Again, that's right, but that view doesn't encapsulates all of it, far from that. I'd say the computer is to the programmer what the canvas is to the painter, or what a sheet of paper is for a mathematician. Saying the canvas is just a medium between the painter and the viewer is right, and so is saying that a sheet of paper where a mathematician plays with theorems and axioms is a medium for real-world applications like engineering or financial stuff. I'm sure there are painters and mathematicians who see joy in what they do, only by itself, and see it as an art. That's the spirit of an art, actually, and we could use many more examples alike. Programming is an art, despite everything else.