Hey

I'm Nick F (any pronouns), a writer, programmer, and miscellaneist.

I'm working on making some little video games, I review books on my journal, I like backpacking with my partner Ruth, I like to run, and I can bake very good bread. I built a free thing called Eardogger dot com, and it's a movable bookmark tool for binge-reading webcomics and book-length websites. I can perform some moderately difficult bicycle maintenance. I like assembling album-length mix tape playlists. I have worked for a couple of software companies, and before that for a yarn shop (with attached café), a wholesale nursery, a bakery (non-baking position), and a bizarre box-ticking service whose nature can't be explained in a single sentence.

Where I'm at

Here's the places where I maintain some kind of public presence:

• Roadrunner Twice (dreamwidth) — My long-running personal journal. I review books and comics and video games under the "didread" tag, and sometimes I post essays or just like... stuff. At some point I'm probably going to try and collect some best-of over on this site, but don't hold your breath waiting for it or anything.
• Mastodon — The shortposts ecosystem I moved to after Twitter ("""Ex""") and Instagram became noxious hellscapes. I'm not gonna say the fediverse is NOT a noxious hellscape, but at least it's something different!
• Tumblr — Strictly reblogs, as me and maybe seven friends chillax in the shattered wreckage of legacy social media.
• Bluesky — By my estimation it's on the same unfederated VC-funded ticking timebomb trajectory as twitter, so don't get too attached. I don't really post here, but if we're buds and the linked account follows you, yeah it's me.
• Github — Where dayjob gets done. I've got a fair amount of personal projects up on there as well, although it'd probably be a good idea to migrate them elsewhere at some point.

Photo by Ruth Linehan.