Speaker - Charlie Lin

Charlie Lin is a free-lance OSS contributor, and a graduate from a little-known private arts college known as Rollins College. He's rather fond of subjecting myself to testing bleeding-edge unstable software in the following ways:

• Dual-booting Windows Insider Canary and Fedora Rawhide (this is where do most of my development)
• Booting Fedora with the latest unstable kernel snapshots
• Compiling software from source using unstable toolchains, such as GCC snapshots for C/C++, CPython prereleases, and Rust nightly
• Using non-ASCII usernames so that I have to test software for full Unicode support (and many bug reports were filed and fixed on GH)

Most of his family has worked in restaurants throughout their entire lives, and he (with high certainty) is the very first family member interested in deep-dives on software in general, and software development.

Beyond programming, he attends broad game nights at a pizzeria (preferring strategy games), is a casual Trekkie, and considers himself somewhat astute in attaining as much online privacy as possible. In particular, he uses privacy.sexy for debloating my Windows install and route all DNS requests to servers that support encrypted DNS over HTTPS.