kylie somasis

nixpkgs: I’m a contributor. I use NixOS on all my machines.

In 2022, I translated the terminal IRC client catgirl developed by my friend june, to Toki Pona. It’s kinda old right now but it got the job done. I still use catgirl.

In 2021, I made discord-theme-irc, a custom CSS stylesheet for Discord that makes it look a little more like IRC. It’s obsolete because I don’t really have the energy to maintain it and keep it working. I do use some custom CSS on Discord still, though.

In 2021, I made hunspell-tok, a Toki Pona dictionary for hunspell(1), a popular spell checking library used by many open-source projects.

In 2021, I made discord-tokipona, a plugin for Powercord (a Discord client mod) that provided an unofficial Toki Pona translation done in large part by yours truly. I found the original author’s plugin, and began working on it to improve and further flesh out the translation of Discord’s official English strings into Toki Pona (which I had learned over the last year). Eventually, I drifted away from the primary toki pona Discord a little, and the plugin was obsoleted by the discontinuation of Powercord; I didn’t really have the motivation to get it working on a new client mod, because Discord client mods come and go so much.

In 2020, I got bored and wrote a reimplementation of pass that would use age instead. But it was mostly just an experiment; I couldn’t really get off of using pass, and GPG, consequentially, because there’s just no real support for that workflow on a mobile device. It was called (passage) and it was superceded anyway (same name even!) by a more recent project doing the same thing by the author of age.

In 2015, I put a small curl wrapper (wget-curl) that would translate wget-style arguments to their equivalents in curl syntax on GitHub. Later (and without my knowing), it was included in CyanogenMod for a time, and was later removed after issues with users tripping over it, since I believe the developers of CyanogenMod mostly started using it for replacing wget in the system tool set somewhere. I was an enthusiastic user of the Toybox project (an alternative to busybox) at the time, and wrote the script primarily as an experiment of my own, for until Toybox got its own wget reimplementation; I was in the process of trying to enable toybox to provide a coreutils alternative on Exherbo Linux.

In 2015, I wrote a silly little init daemon called beginning; it was a fun project but I eventually realized that s6 was a much more technologically superior solution for the problem space of process supervision. Unfortunately, this did not translate into me doing anything to integrate s6 more properly into my distro of the time, but I really wanted to! I still use s6 in 2025, though not as an init system, I just find many of its tools useful; I had to concede my technical preferences for getting things done long ago.

In 2015, for making it easier to deal with Gerrit, I wrote git-gerrit, which was a wonky little script to automate interacting with with Gerrit over its SSH frontend.

And also in 2015 (I had a lot of free time) I started making a fork…​ thing…​ of my favorite GTK theme set of the time, Shiki-Colors (also known as GNOME-Colors). I still use some variation on this theme, but I’ve not really published it anywhere.

At the end of 2014, I wrote a script for updating the Linux kernel from source, called lux, primarily for users of Exherbo Linux (but it worked with any distro; it was just for fetching and configuring and building the kernel from Git).

In 2014, I wrote a Tumblr theme called Bootstrapped—it was actually in the theme gallery for a time too. Here’s what it looked like.

Back in 2012, I wrote a set of scripts for a Minecraft server plugin called CommandHelper, called rccmd, which provided a set of general commands for server users and administrators, as an alternative to more full-featured command set plugins of the time.

Back in 2011 (I think) I made a GNOME Shell theme called Seeha back in the day but I can’t find it anywhere; there was an AUR package for it though.

My most obscure flex is that in 2010 I got published in OMGubuntu for a dinky little shell script launcher program called Alawalk, and its update, and then that launcher program got remade…​

“Beyond Plunderphonics: A prolegomena to any future revolutionary music.” Capstone paper presented to the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Appalachian State University, 2023.

“Whatever’s Left of Woman: Porn, Trans Identity, and Gender Expansivity.” 1st place winner of the 23rd Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2023.

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