exozyme

Hi! Welcome to our computing community's cozy corner of the internet!

Stuff we do

πŸ—¨οΈ Discuss cool stuff

Our community has a lively Matrix room and weekly voice calls every Saturday at 15:00 UTC. Feel free to stop by and say hi!

πŸ“– Learn new things

Ever wondered about how to intentionally make Python segfault, compress instant ramen, or resize a live root filesystem? We enjoy learning new things, whether it's CS, programming, math, or just frivolous fun.

πŸ‘Ύ Hack everything

We do lots of fun stuff. Like installing every Arch Linux package or booting Linux off of Google Drive, because why not?

πŸ–ŠοΈ Write about our projects

We have a monthly magazine, exozine, about what our members have been up to each month. You can also subscribe to exofeeds to get updates from our members' blogs.

πŸ—οΈ Build better software

We're contributors to many free and open-source projects, including Arch Linux, KDE, Gitea, Forgejo, ForgeFed, Woodpecker CI, QubesOS, Nimskull, DVUI, Space Station 14, Fish, the official GNOME wallpapers, and more.

Members

@a Unnamed Website
@spicecat spicecat club
@abheekd Home βΈ¬ ADAT
@fogti Ytrizja Main Server
@ersei Home | Ersei 'n Stuff
@aryak Arya | Main
@iacore Index – 1A Insecure Network
@nvpie Neo Void
@xtex xtex's Home
@peaksol Peaksol's Personal Site
@vnpower VnPower's site
@dragongoose dragongoose!
@cloudyy Cloudyy - Home
@daudix Daudix
@moksh UNTRUZEM
@slightknack Home β€” Isaac Clayton
@d-rens Daniels website

Mascot

Sidney the cat sleeping on the ground

This our mascot, Sidney the cat. He loves eating salmon, chin rubs, and sleeping. He also has admin privileges on Matrix.

Lore

"Paperclip maximizer but it's building an infinitely long tape instead"
"Welcome to the cult of the Unix socket!"
"I have to fold myself to solve it"

Once upon a time (specifically 2021-03-26, if you wanna be pedantic and interrupt the flow), @a had a machine. It was a pretty nice machine. Using this machine, @a, @spicecat, @abheekd, and their friends made some cool projects and websites and taught an Intro to Python class. Soon, the community grew and people from around the world joined. In 2022, the Gitea instance on this machine became the first-ever forge to successfully federate with Mastodon!

One day, the machine encountered its arch-nemesis: entropy! Entropy used: thunderstorm with 100 km/h winds! It's super effective! The machine was down for 93 hours but survived without much damage. A year later, entropy returned for a rematch. Entropy used: CPU fan failure! It's not very effective! Entropy used: SSD failure! It's super effective! @a had no choice but to concede defeat to the dual forces of entropy and being busy in life and the machine was no more. But, don't feel sad, since our community is still alive and doing just fine! Seriously, just look at our Matrix and voice calls. SSD failures can kill machines, but they can't kill communities. Or at least, not this one.

Oh and if you've wondering about the origin of the name exozyme, it's just an invented word that sounds cool and contains everyone's favorite math variables x, y, and z! Just please don't call it "exozy" instead of "exozyme" or we'll all glare disapprovingly at you. Pronounce it however you like. You can find this website's source code (CC BY-SA 4.0 license) here.