Hi! I'm Linus, also known as linusg online and often recognizable by the penguin avatar above :^)
A lot of what I do involves computers — I've taught myself programming as a kid and have been doing it ever since, both professionally and as a hobby.
My interests in programming have covered a number of topics over the years: the web, games, mobile, low level, to name a few. However I still see myself as a generalist, both in terms of languages and topics I'm interested in!
In practice a lot of my focus is on the Web platform. I now work on JavaScript-related infrastructure more than doing regular web development. Regardless I find that developing for the web can be a joyful experience despite all of its quirks :^)
Through this shift of focus I also got interested in standards work, first becoming an Invited Expert in TC39 for my involvement in Ladybird and now being a delegate as part of my dayjob.
I also enjoy embrace self-hosting software: this website, monitoring, OwnTracks, several Nextclouds, my own Mastodon instance, and various other small services.
For the last five years I've been living in London, but I can be often found travelling Europe by train — it's fun!
Contact
- Email: mail@linusgroh.de
- Fediverse: @linus@donotsta.re
- Matrix: @linusgroh:matrix.org
Contact via Discord, Signal, IRC, and snail mail has been deprecated, please try any of the above first :^)
If you want to send me something encrypted, you can do so using age. My public key is:
age1pengu3c70m8gk9yv3q426exzdzqt6kky4uxn87dmk667snnejdcsa6h0av
Projects
I hack on a lot of open source software in my spare time, often focusing on one project at a time. A handful of them are listed below, various others can be found on my GitHub and Codeberg accounts.
⚡ Kiesel
For the past year my most active project has been Kiesel, a JavaScript engine I wrote from scratch in Zig! It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, the web via Wasm, and the 3DS (yes, really). There is still lots of work to do — you're welcome to check it out and join the fun, or ask any questions you may have :^)
🐞 SerenityOS / Ladybird
Before that I was an active contributor and maintainer in the SerenityOS project, mostly working on LibJS and LibWeb which eventually turned into the Ladybird browser. I've done a bit of work on GUI applications, the kernel, and a handful of ports (notably python3) as well.
🌍 OwnTracks
I also created and still (try to) maintain the OwnTracks frontend, a Vue.js web app.
