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About

Welcome! My name is Emil Engler and I am currently a student based in Karlsruhe, Germany.

I consider myself to be a philosopher, but not in the sense of the isolated discipline of modern day academia. Instead, I am more inclined towards the embodiment of what a philosopher used to be in the ancient times: a universally educated individual in the fields of aesthetics, astronomy, biology, epistemology, ethics, logic, mathematics, metaphysics, ontology, political theory, and rhetoric. Especially mathematics and it’s subset of computer science caught my attention many years ago, which is also the reason why I am studying them both as my majors at university-level. Money does not interest me. Advancing the knowledge of the humankind does.

Programming is a great passion of mine for many years now already. However, I consider programming to be an art, rather than being a tool to solve a problem. This is why I despise quick and dirty solutions and prefer creative, unconventional, but beautiful approaches. Solving problems does not interest me. The approach to solve a certain problem does.

Code is not the only artistic tool I use however. Beside code, much of my artistic output is also processed by writing prose, be it fiction or non-fiction. The writers that I admire are (in no particular order): Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Albert Camus, and Immanuel Kant.

Software

Active

• Am I using Tor? – A bloat-free tool to check if Tor is used
• curvy – A brute-force vanity onion addresses searcher
• litev – A minimal event notification library
• slog – A static site generator that I can like
• spack – A minimal Space API checker

Completed

• bunny – A toy implementation of Rosenpass in Elixir
• funion – A Tor implementation in Elixir
• yhttp – A small C library implementing an HTTP/1.1 server

Contributor

Active Contributor

• Rosenpass (2023 - present)
  • Member of the core team
  • Author of the manual pages
  • Improvements for BSD support
  • Wrote a toy implementation in Elixir
• Tor (2022 - present)
  • Wrote a Tor implementation in Elixir
  • Many improvements throughout the specification
  • Various patches to Arti
  • Operate Am I using Tor?

Former Contributor

• cURL (2019 - 2023)
  • Reimplemented the --help menu in 2020
  • Participant at the curlUP conference since 2020
  • Doing some bug fixes and solving issues from time to time

Talks

• Rosenpass Update (Sep. 2023)
• funion – A Tor Client in Elixir (Aug. 2023)
• Cutting the Onion – The Tor Protocol (Jun. 2023)

Contact

• PGP: F365 E654 4A5C 9AB1 3293 42D4 2F6D 4145 C55F C7C7
• Matrix: @emilengler:stratum0.org
• GitHub: emilengler
• Fedi: @engler@chaos.social