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title: "About"
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I'm known as **redstrate**, and I'm all about filling my own niche. I enjoy contributing to various open source projects in my free time, and I'm also a [KDE](https://kde.org) developer and [KDE e.V.](https://ev.kde.org) member. Apart from software development, I enjoy cooking, drawing and studying languages (real world and programming ones.) Of course, also play video games.

I like developing software that I would personally use, and it also fills a niche or problem that either isn't adequately solved, or maybe just want to learn how to do it myself. My languages of choice usually are [C](/software/tags/c), [C++](/software/tags/cplusplus), and [Rust](/software/tags/rust) - and that's what you'll find most of the projects using!

Drawing has been a hobby of mine ever since childhood, and I try to draw when I can. I have a complete collection of my art I've created in [my gallery]({{< ref "art" >}}). I'm not a professional artist so my schedule tends to be erratic. My preferred software is [Krita](https://krita.org) and [Blender](https://blender.org). I also like to animate, but I don't really have the time to sit down and do it.