About

I'm Aran, previously known as Arancaytar. My pronouns are they or she. I do a lot of stuff with websites, mostly using PHP and Drupal. I currently live and study in Zurich, Switzerland, and have previously spent most of my life in Germany (studying in Aachen, Frankfurt and Berlin).

I have been (or still am) active in the following online communities, and some of their satellites:

• Spiderweb Software (2003 to now)
• NationStates (2004 to now)
• Santharia (2003 to 2006)

Main interests

• All kinds of programming languages. My current favorites are Python and PHP, but I've dabbled in Java, JS and Haskell, and occasionally touched Lua and Ruby.
• Logic and computational complexity, my main focus while studying computer science.
• I'm trying to pick up the basics of Machine Learning.
• Overwatch, StarCraft 2, Factorio.
• Ponies.

Contact

• I can be reached by email at aran@ermarian.net. (I used to recommend my PGP key (0x53EF6955) at this point, but frankly I am no longer convinced it's a worthwhile security measure.)
• I am active on Twitter as @arancaytar.
• Some of my code is published on GitHub as @arancaytar.