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About Me

My name is Daniel, and I am a graduate cybersecurity researcher, programmer, and Linux enthusiast. My goal is to channel my passion for computers and security into making the internet safer for everyone. Part of the NSERC CREATE Cybersecurity program, my work combines programming, cryptography, system design, and threat modeling to tackle real-world security challenges.

I’m passionate about minimalist design. This website is part of the 1mb club, jsfree.org, and built with Zona, a tool I wrote myself. I’m also interested in efficiency and optimization, which is why I use Neovim for all of my programming & writing, and I prefer typing in Colemak-DH on a custom layout.

I also develop Neovim plugins.

I will publish blog posts about various technology topics on this website once I have implemented the necessary features in Zona. In the meantime, you can learn more about me below. I hope you enjoy your stay, and you are welcome to contact me anytime.

Neovim Plugins

• Ashen.nvim
  • Color scheme plugin featuring a warm, dark palette.
  • Supports plugins, themes for extra software, transparency, palette overriding and highlight overriding.
  • Over 70 stars on GitHub.
• Academic.nvim
  • Automatically installs and configures an Academic English spelling dictionary.
  • Minimal performance overhead.

Projects

• “SP”

  • Peer-to-peer MFA system implemented in Python, Java, and JavaScript.

• Go-Chat

  • Lightweight end-to-end encrypted TUI messaging application implemented in Go.

• Zona

  • Static site builder written in Go and optimized for lightweight blogs following minimalist design principles.
  • Support for templates, declarative metadata, and configuration files.
  • In active development.
  • Used to build this website.

• AutoYADM

  • Shell utility to automate managing dot files with yadm.

• Keyboard

  • Self-built wireless corne keyboard.
  • Colemak-DH (non-QWERTY, ergonomic layout).
  • Custom columnar split layout leveraging overloaded modifiers and layers to maximize efficiency.
  • Custom ANSI layout intended to make my ThinkPad internal keyboard as ergonomic as possible without conflicting with external keyboards.

Contact

• Email.
• GitHub.
• LinkedIn.

Note: I prefer to keep my LinkedIn presence fairly minimal. Please contact me by email instead.