exozyme

exocon25 is happening on March 29!

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

Stuff we do

🗨️ Discuss cool stuff

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

👾 Hack everything

We do lots of fun stuff. Like using graph algorithms to install every Arch package or booting Linux off of Google Drive, because why not?

🖊️ Write about our projects

Check out our monthly magazine, exozine, or subscribe to exofeeds for updates from our members' blogs.

🏗️ Build better software

We're contributors to many free and open-source projects, including KDE, GNOME, Forgejo, ForgeFed, Space Station 14, Fish, and many more, and also started a few of our own.

Members

a's website a spicecat's website spicecat abheekd's website abheekd fogti's website fogti ersei's website ersei aryak's website aryak iacore's website iacore nvpie's website nvpie 's website xtex peaksol's website peaksol vnpower's website vnpower dragongoose's website dragongoose cloudyy's website cloudyy daudix's website daudix moksh's website moksh slightknack's website slightknack d-rens's website d-rens

Mascot

Sydney the cat sleeping on the ground

This our mascot, Sydney 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, @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! But one day, the machine encountered its arch-nemesis: entropy!

  1. Entropy used: thunderstorm with 100 km/h winds! It's super effective!
  2. Entropy used: CPU fan failure! It's not very effective!
  3. 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 sadly sold off the machine. But luckily, 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" 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.