Hi, my name is Liv. I live in Düsseldorf, Germany. Nice to meet you!

This site is meant to be a brief introduction to myself, as well as to things I find interesting.

Some things about me

• I'm a software developer by trade (I'm currently not for hire).
• I hike a lot, preferably 15km+, at least once a week.
• I use they/them pronouns (she/her is fine, too).
• I've been working on open source software for way too long.

Technical stuff

• For work, I write a lot of Rust, and a decent bit of the web stack (HTML, CSS, JS/TS/Vue), too.
• Outside of work, I'm using a lot of Elixir and Erlang.
• I also like infrastructure and systems work, and I'm always interested in learning more about it.

Projects

Here's a non-exhaustive list of things I've done or contributed to:

• Rust (the language) — I've lead a couple of teams and created a bunch of learning materials.
• Rustlings — An official learning course for Rust.
• Fernehalwes — A website to plan events in Final Fantasy XIV, written in Elixir using Phoenix.
• shtola — A funny little static site generator. Used for this website.
• In the past, I lead Jekyll and Node.js.
• I'm also an avid event organizer (before the pandemic). Past events include JSConf EU, CSSconf EU, Rust Berlin and Nodeschool Berlin.

How to reach me

• The most reliable way is, as it should be, email. My primary email address is shadows at with dot al.
• I'm also on GitHub, albeit only for work and open-source purposes.
• I hang around a lot on IRC, my nick is usually shadows_withal.