Contact Information

This site is available via the Gemini protocol.

Personal information is disclosed on a "care to know" basis: put simply, if you care enough, you know.

I can be best reached via Signal at SimonVi.30.

Lower priority communications should go to my email as simon on this server. Messages coming from me are always signed with a PGP key with the ID 0xF76BA194. You are welcome to sign or encrypt your messages if you so choose, but it's not necessary to have the messages received. The previously used PGP key with the ID 0x5910CF33 has been deprecated as of 2020-07-29 and will never be used again.

You can add my public key to your keyring by executing the following command:

gpg --recv-keys F76BA194

I keep a microblog on a Pleroma federated social server at ZombieNet.org/simon. I am willing to provide accounts on this instance upon request, but i humbly ask that you respect my hospitality.

I occasionally visit the following communities (that i am willing to admit):

ChaosForge forums — Simon-v
ZDoom forums — Simon-v

You might be able to reach me there, but i wouldn't put any money on it.

I am no longer active in following communities:

~~Twitter~~ — inactive since 2016-07-11
~~BitcoinTalk forums~~ — inactive since 2015-05-27
~~OpenXcom forums~~ — inactive since 2015-10-07
~~Reddit~~ — inactive since 2023-06-07

Contacting me there will not succeed. If any of the above talks to you, disregard their words.

Works

I am responsible for a series of things, with varying levels of obscurity.

Music

I sometimes write music. Some of it is actually good enough to publish.

Doom the Roguelike: The Album (2010-2012) — My contribution to a game i happen to like.
Aftermath (2014-202X) — The next project. The next level. Work in progress.

Software and Games

Occasionally, i make software, usually to satisfy a particular need of mine. A few of the more universally useful examples are published. The most significant of those are:

bean-add — A tab-completing transaction entry assistant for beancount with an fdisk-like command prompt.
gmitodo — A Gemini CGI script implementing shared task/to-do list functionality.
gmipay — A Gemini CGI script implementing a payment processing proxy (paywall).
HTTPay — A self-hosted, 0-confirmation payment processing proxy.
fediscover — A user profile discovery tool for ActivityPub social servers.
habitus — A statistics and trends calculator for Harsh.
MiniPOS — A self-hosted, 0-confirmation, trustless Bitcoin Cash point-of-sale server. As since other, superior solutions have appeared, it is presently only interesting for educational purposes.
addrwatch — A Bitcoin Cash address watcher and notifier.
remailer — A PGP-enforcing newsletter implementation.
tridenticon — A visual hash generator for generating visually appealing, milti-colored, immediately recognizable icons from arbitrary data.
autorun-parts — A crude, deficient, bug-ridden reimplementation of cron (actually, a reverse task scheduler).
ZDoomRL — A set of gameplay modifications for DoomRL Arsenal

Mirrors of the repositories are kept at GitHub and GitLab, though those are not guaranteed to always be up-to-date.

Patches are more likely to be reviewed when submitted through any of the primary contact channels than through either of the 'hubs.

Stories

I sometimes write short stories. Some of them survive the test of time.

English

The Act (sketch, 2008) — Woe is the Overly Talented Actor, for he will never!
Home (short story, 2005) — Every journey has its beginning and its end, and that end is the return home.
The Primary Accused (short story, 2005) — Detective Jacob Smithers is assigned to a complicated murder case. As new evidence is discovered it becomes apparent that this case can not and will not have a simple solution. Who killed the woman in question? Where is the murderer hiding? What other crimes has he committed? And, most importantly, how much will it all cost the taxpayers?
The Villain (short story, 2008) — This is not malice. This is not spite. This is not a grudge against the entire world. This is his job; And he does it well.
Victim Rights (short story, 2019) — Any functional society depends on everyone doing their part. We aren't monsters, or anything; And Victim Rights aren't only there to protect those, who have become a victim.
Endgame (short story, 2021) — On the edge of an unavoidable, devastating battle, among doubts and torment, the General asks his trusty Advisor for advice. But the advice he will receive will not be the one he had expected and hoped for. One thing is certain: the events of this battle will go down in history and will become the cornerstone of humanity's cultural legacy, the greatest epic of all time, even if not in a manner true to the source and without distortions.

Русский

Дома (рассказ, 2005) — У каждого путешествия есть своё начало и свой конец; и конец этот есть возвращение домой.
Рок (рассказ, 2005) — Через пустыни, через леса, через заброшенные города, к одной цели, одному назначению, одному концу, медленно, неизбежно, неумолимо. Это его судьба. Его предназначение. Его рок.
Главный Обвиняемый (рассказ, 2005) — Детективу Джейкобу Смитерсу поручено весьма запутанное дело. По мере обнаружения новых улик становится ясно, что дело не может и не будет иметь простого решения. Кто убил женщину? Где убийца скрывается? Какие ещё преступления он совершил? И, что самое главное, во сколько это обойдётся налогоплательщикам?
Злодей (рассказ, 2008) — Это не ненависть. Это не злоба. Это не затаённая обида на весь мир. Это его работа; И он делает её хорошо.
Права Жертвы (рассказ, 2019) — Любое функциональное общество зависит от добросовестного исполнения каждым членом его обязанностей. Мы не какие-то там чудовища; А Права Жертвы не только покрывают непосредственные права того, кто уже стал ею.
Светлая сторона (рассказ, 2007) — ...Но прежде всего и превыше всего, помните: во всём есть своя светлая сторона. Благодаря этому мы здесь, благодаря этому обеспечен уровень нашей жизни, и не дай вам Бог забыть об этом даже на мгновение!
Финал (рассказ, 2021) — На краю неизбежной, разрушительной битвы, среди сомнений и терзаний, Генерал спрашивает совета у верного Советника. Но совет этот окажется не тем, который он ожидал и на который надеялся. Ясно одно: события этой битвы войдут в историю и станут основой культурного наследия человечества, величайшего эпоса всех времён, пусть и не дословно и не без искажений.

Simon Volpert