### About Me Looks like you found my website. I suppose introductions are in order. My name's Tristan, I'm an avid Dutch-South African software engineer. You probably either met me at an open source conference, a hackathon, a badminton session or at a roleplaying table. If not, well, this is also a great place to "meet" me. Have a nosey! ### This Website There is not a whole lot here at the moment. You may find the following interesting though: - A [little web app](~/src/music_sample.html) showing off what WebGL can do in combination with the JavaScript Audio interface.
### My Work I'm interested in a variety of things in the open source world. Perhaps thanks to my pursuit of the perfect Linux desktop, this has revolved a lot around reproducible build and deployment systems for the last few years, initially starting with [BuildStream](https://buildstream.build/) back in ~2017. I gave a couple of talks on it at build meetups in the UK in subsequent years, though sadly most evidence of that appears to have disappeared. Since then this has culminated in a strong fondness for [NixOS](https://nixos.org/) and Nix, as its active community makes private use cases much more feasible. As such, I have a vested interest in making this community as large as possible - I post a lot on the NixOS [discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/) trying to help newcomers out where I can. I also just enjoy Programming, my core languages for personal work are currently probably Rust and Python, although I have a very varied background. This is in part due to my former work as a consultant, which required new languages every few months. I have experience from JavaScript over Elm to Kotlin, but eventually I hope I might only need to write Rust ;) If you're interested in seeing these things for yourself, visit my [Gitlab](https://gitlab.com/tlater) and [GitHub](https://github.com/tlater) pages.