A little bit about me
Hi you can call me Alistair. It is not my real name but I picked it one day and it stuck. Why I don't use my real name ? Well I'm bit paranoid I would say 😀 At least for now. I am 34 and I love books, games, coffee and cats. But mostly coffee! You can find a list of my favourite books here on my site. I grew up in Windows XP era mostly but I remember using MS-DOS and Norton Commander or something similar to it.
So my Hobbies are games, reading, writing, programming, I have a guitar that I take out few times but I can't really play it (yet). I may or may not have ADHD 😀 #undiagnosed. Let's start with my game dev. My first experiments with making games started around 2006 when I got my hands on Game Maker. Probably from some CD. So I was tinkering, trying to build something similar to Dyna Blaster but different. I even remember my computer died while programming. But I never get anywhere back then. I was working always on something for next couple of years but never finishing anything.
But I never forget about it. In 2022 started following couple of youtubers like Brackeys, Codemonkey and others and I started tinkering again but again I never built anything. I spent most of time just watching Youtube. So now in 2025 I finally decided it is time to change. I have still not build a proper game but I downloaded Godot engine and finished tutorial and almost finished simple shoot em up game. But I can write more about that in my Game Dev section.
Writing is my another passion. As far as I can remember I wanted to publish a book. Do I need to be a famous author ? No, it would be nice but it is not a priority. I like writing and coming up with stories, mostly fantasy and scifi. So I decided like two months ago (October 2025) that I want to write a book. My first one will highly probably will not be any Godot but I don't care, I will not get better if I never write one. I will have more about this in my Writing section.
Another thing that I enjoy is tinkering with computers in general. Operating systems, programming, learning about technologies, building my own PCs etc. Maybe I should finally focus on one thing and master it so it can start making me money :D I wouldn't mind be working as programmer, time will tell.
I may change this section 'about me' later as it seems like I am jumping from one place to another. But at least you have a little peek inside my head :D It is a chaotic space without a form stuck somewhere in between dimensions, or something like that. And I forgot to mention that I have a small gaming Youtube channel.
My Hardware
For anyone interested on what hardware I play, programm and everything else here you can find it.
Main Gaming PC
- Motherboard
- ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
- RAM
- Corsair 32GB KIT DDR4 3200 MHz CL16 Vengeance LPX
- GPU
- AMD Sapphire Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB
- Display
- 27" LG UltraGear 27GP850P
- OS
- Fedora Linux 43
- Case
- Montech AIR 903 MAX Black
- UPS
- EATON UPS Ellipse PRO 1600 FR USB
- Storage
- ADATA LEGEND 800 1 TB
- Storage
- Patriot Burst Elite 960 GB
- Storage
- HDD 2TB
- Storage
- HDD 3TB
Editing & Programming
- Name
- Mac Mini M4
- RAM
- 16GB
- Storage
- 256GB SSD
Writing
- Name
- Lenovo Thinkpad T490
- CPU
- Intel i7 8665U
- RAM
- 16GB
- GPU
- Intel UHD 620
- Display
- 14" 1080p Touchscreen
- OS
- Fedora Linux 43
- Storage
- 256GB SSD
Old New Retro PC
- Motherboard
- MSI P45 Neo3 FR MS-7514 Ver 1.0
- CPU
- Intel Q2Q Q8400
- RAM
- 3GB DDR2
- GPU
- GTX 260 896MB
- Display
- 19" 1080p Acer
- OS
- Windows XP SP3 2002
- Storage
- 128GB SSD
- Storage
- 1TB HDD