exozyme

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've started several free and open-source projects and are also contributors to many existing projects such as KDE, GNOME, Forgejo, ForgeFed, Space Station 14, and Fish.

Members

a's websitea spicecat's websitespicecat abheekd's websiteabheekd fogti's websitefogti ersei's websiteersei aryak's websitearyak iacore's websiteiacore pranav's websitepranav nvpie's websitenvpie 's websitextex haydenwu's websitehaydenwu vnpower's websitevnpower dragongoose's websitedragongoose cloudyy's websitecloudyy daudix's websitedaudix untrusem's websiteuntrusem slightknack's websiteslightknack d-rens's websited-rens aetherclouds's websiteaetherclouds

Mascot

Sydney the cat lying on his back on a towel and stretching

This our supreme overlord mascot, Sydney the cat. He loves eating salmon, chin rubs, and sleeping. Get your Sydney stickers here!

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. Soon, the community grew and people from around the world joined. In 2022, our Gitea instance became the first-ever forge to successfully federate using ForgeFed! 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 the machine. But luckily, our community is still alive and thriving. And for exozyme's 4th birthday on March 29, 2025, we had a virtual conference, exocon25, which was a huge success!

Oh and if you've wondering about the origin of the name exozyme, it's just some random invented word. Just please don't call it "exozy" or we'll all glare disapprovingly at you. Pronounce it however you like.

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