Personal details

My name is Troels Henriksen, I’m a hacker from Denmark. Computing is my primary passion, and I study it at home as well as at the University of Copenhagen, where I work as a postdoctoral researcher.

My email address is athas@sigkill.dk and my public key is available here. However, the best way to contact me is on IRC.

While I do have non-computer interests, this is the Internet, so I won’t get into those. My computer interests are:

• Simplicity. I think modern computers are too slow, too fragile, and too incorrect, and I believe the root cause is uncontrolled complexity. Attempts to introduce simplicity by mindlessly adding abstraction layers are ultimately counterproductive. Simplicity is best achieved by lowering feature count and flexibility.

• Freedom. Important societal infrastructure code should be free from a moral point of view. Other kinds of code should be free because collaborating is fun!

• Tinkering. Computers are toys for the mind.

My main claim to fame is my participation in topDatamat, a Danish (English subtitles) sketch show, as terrible actor and decent script author.