• 👨 He/Him | 🧠 hapless idiot, curious generalist
• 🥸 Also go by "Nate", "Nate Dogg", "Nug Doug", "Nug Diddy", "Niddle Diddle"...
• 💻 ~14 years working in software, DevOps, platform & reliability engineering
• 🧠 Now interested in MLOps, HPC, and simulation infrastructure
• 🎓 Exploring the possibility of a PhD in math, CS, or complexity science
• 🏥 Working at Agile Six on projects with the US Department of Veterans Affairs:
  • VA.gov Modernization (10/2020–02/2024)
  • Patient Check-In (02/2024–present)

Various completed projects, semi-professional work, polished tools, and things that make me look like I know what I'm doing.

• 👋 ndouglas: ooh, a secret
• 🎲 longtable: LISP + ECS + Rule Engine
• 🧊 unity-hashing-grid: Hashing Grid implementation in Unity
• 🔢 mips-sudoku-solver: A Sudoku solver, written in MIPS R4K assembly.
• 🗣️ whispers: Whispers is a self-organizing, belief-driven mesh where nodes propose, verify, and evolve solutions through dynamic, decentralized consensus.
• 💻 blackpool: An implementation of the Lox Virtual Machine, written in Rust
• 📈 linear-regression: Simple implementation of linear regression in Rust as a learning project.
• ☕️ distillation: An experiment with distillation using various combinations of naïve implementations, adversarial training, Jacobian penalties, and approximate Hessian penalties.
• 🕴️ resume: My résumé, written in LaTeX, with continuous delivery or something.
• 🎮 greenstone: A basic NES emulator written in Rust with an emphasis on debugging and game development.
• 🧭 clork: A faithful port of Zork to Clojure
• 🪾 arborhedron: An exploration of Platonic symmetry, emergent structures, symbolic recursion, and ideal-vs-real tension.

Raspberry Pi Bramble homelab - Talos Linux + Kubernetes. Failure injection, distributed systems, observability, emergent behavior. Nothing is sacred. Everything is an experiment.

• 👋 .github: My ✨special ✨ repository
• 🚜 terraform: General Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code for Goldentooth
• 🧱 clog: The changelog formerly known as "Kubernetes, the Excruciating Way".
• 🚜 gitops: GitOps repository for Goldentooth Talos cluster
• 🏗️ cluster: Declarative definition for Goldentooth.
• 🛡️ asoiaf-noble-house-images: Images derived from arms from noble houses of ASoIaF.

Weird experiments, speculative tinkering, half-baked ideas, and things I build because they seemed interesting at 2am.

• 🚜 terraform: General Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code for Bitterbridge
• 🧩 terraform-modules: Reusable Terraform modules for various projects
• 👋 .github: Special Repository
• 📉 p5js-sketches: p5.js sketches for fun and to show off silly ideas
• ⚙️ github-actions: GHA reusable Actions and Workflows for use in my various repositories

This used to be my homelab (before I went mini with Goldentooth), now it's basically my dotfiles.

• 👋 .github: Special Repository
• 🚜 terraform: General Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code for Hellholt
• 🎤 podcasts: Podcasts I listen to and archive.
• 🧿 dotfiles: My dotfiles, somewhat more reasonably structured.
• ❓ sillicoin-valley-tycoon: A satirical game about how stupid everything is right now.
• 📺 youtube: YouTube channels I archive (and occasionally watch).
• 📚 books: Books I want to read, intend to read, am putting off reading, am reading, am taking a break from reading, am finishing, have finished, or desperately want to have finished.
• 🎵 albums: A collection of YAML lists of albums in my listening queue
• 👩 pinkmaiden: A personal image-sharing site for images I find interesting.
• 💡 ideas: A repository just for ideas, since I'm having them faster than I can finish them...
• 📐 projects: Projects I'm planning to do in the next little bit. (Will obviously grow dramatically over time.)
• 🎓 phd-ideas: Ideas I have for potential PhD theses.
• 🛡️ asoiaf-noble-house-images: Images derived from arms from noble houses of ASoIaF.
• 🥅 goals: All of the things I want to do.
• 🖨️ cheatsheets: A list of cheatsheets and reminders I've made for personal reference.
• ✅ todo: A repository to track all of the things I should be doing right now...
• ✍️ blog: My blog, written and maintained by Hugo.

• 🇫🇷 Relearning French
• 🧱 Building LEGO with my kid
• 🖌️ Painting miniatures (and printing them faster than I can paint them)
• 🧘‍♂️ Lifting, cycling, rowing — brain only works when body does
• 👨‍🍳 Cooking (🥖 baking, 🧀 cheesemaking, 🍝 experimenting)
• 🎥 Letterboxd
• 🎼 RateYourMusic
• 🎮 Not playing anything in my Steam backlog
• 🎲 Not playing any of my board games either
• 🌵 Practicing succulent restraint
• 🧠 Currently top 3% on TryHackMe

( 🌀ndouglas | 🌉bitterbridge | ️‍🔥hellholt | 🦷goldentooth )