vcokltfre

vcokltfre

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About me

Hey there, I'm a 21 year old programmer and community manager from Wales!

Since I got my first original Raspberry Pi in 2012 I've been programming in some capacity. In the beginning I started on Scratch (1.4!), then slowly moved over to using Python for increasingly complex projects. More recently I've been developing primarily in Go and Rust, with some Python sprinkled in. Outsise of my work where I develop device firmware and controls to go along with it, I like to focus on anti-abuse tooling like FishFish and moderation automation utilities.

I've also been managing and moderating communities for the past 4 years, and in late 2022 became a Discord partner. I have now moderated a total of over a million members across all the communities I've been a part of.

My skills

Python

11 years

I've been programming on and off in Python since early 2014. Over time my Python projects have got bigger and - more importantly - better.

Community Management

4 years

I started getting into community management around the time the COVID-19 pandemic started, and have been moderating, and more recently managing, communities ever since. Over time my focus has turned from active moderation to development, policy, and general management.

Golang

3 years

While I started using Go more recently than Python it's quickly become the language I write the majority of my software in, due to its simplicity, ecosystem, and ability to compile quickly to static binaries.

Projects and Communities

FishFish

Admin and Development Lead 2021 - Present

FishFish is a community effort to reduce the attack capabilities of phishing attacks on Discord by early detection and reporting of phishing domains before they're used on the platform.

GTAO Discord

Admin and Development Lead 2020 - Present

The GTA Online Discord server is a community for the GTA series. My position there involves policy and management, as well as development of bots and services for the community.

Nextcord

Maintainer 2021 - Present

Nextcord is a python library and framework for building Discord bots. When discord.py announced it would no longer be continuing development Nextcord was forked to allow people to continue to develop bots in Python with the simplicity of discord.py.

Minecraft@Home

Founder & Admin 2020 - Present

Minecraft@Home is a technical Minecraft project, focusing on discovering interesting parts of the game, for example the naturally generating 23-block-tall cactus, or the world seeds for the famous pack.png and the title screen panoramas.