hello!

I'm Pardalis (he/they). This website serves as a central hub for my online identity and a playground for various projects. You may know me as Emille (the shark), Latin_Geek / LatGeek (from the facepunch forum times) or any other number of names. Thanks for visiting!

I consider myself a generalist, an amateur, or a jack of all trades, and that's not entirely a good thing- I like to think I have a good understanding of many topics and willingness to learn more about them, picking up little skills and ways to do things as I jump from fixation to fixation. Some previous and current ones are electronics, vintage computing, arcade machines, printmaking, 3D printing, CAD, vector work, sewing, outdated recording formats, and many more.

Just like with interests, my media diet is varied to an unhealthy degree. Within a month or two I will switch from sea shanties and union hymns to moody experimental pieces to heavily political or heavily emotional rock music, to "the funny ones", to playing entire My Chemical Romance albums on repeat. There are some earworms I'm less proud than others. In the same vein, I like movies a lot, and will always jump at the chance to watch a weird one. They're more fun with friends!

Computers are a big part of how I interact with the world, so I've learnt how to make them behave the way I want them to. I have a lot of love for a good laptop.