Karcsesz

Hello there! I’m Karcsesz, and I do things with computers. I also dabble in stage tech and DJ-ing. I’m an avid user of open source software, and I like helping out community projects like OpenStreetMap and MusicBrainz.

I’m from Hungary, where I currently work as a drone pilot, software developer, and network engineer at TECHTRA.

Funnily, though my username can be best described in English as “car chess”, I’m not a fan of cars, and I suck at chess. It’s a contraction of two nicknames for the Hungarian equivalent of Charlie.

Projects

I’m deeply involved with a few projects trying to make the internet suck less:

• These Horsies Rock is a PeerTube instance I run for pony people and alike.
• This Horsie Codes is a Forgejo instance under the same umbrella. It’s where I store most of my current projects.
• There are a few other projects under that umbrella that aren’t public yet. Stay tuned!
• Vaudeville is a work-in-progress Rust crate wrapping VAAPI for video decoding and encoding I have been slowly chipping at, documenting the process of figuring everything out on this blog.
• BlepCon is a Discord server with weekly events. I’ve assisted them with setting up a low-latency media streaming server and used to run moderation for Music Night. I also helped create the first three anniversary mixes for that event.
• PonySearch is a metasearch engine using SearXNG which I’ve helped out with some very minor plugin development.
• TwitchTrot is a collective of Twitch streamers. I’ve developed Fingerlink to enable them to simplify linking to their members’ Fediverse presence.

OCs

In case you missed it, I’m also a horse on the internet. Neigh!

Bracket Mismatch

Or just Brackets to friends. He’s my main persona, a beige earth pony with straw-coloured mane who likes to wear green. His cutie mark is a lightning bolt enclosed by two square brackets, which has since become sort of a brand for me.

Fruity Swirl

Brackets’ big sister. She was an adopt from BeardieArts I got on a whim, and so far I haven’t done much to flesh her out. She doesn’t even have a cutie mark yet.

Yes, I have realised since naming her that she isn’t supposed to be a smoothie, but a hamburger :3

Find me

• Fediverse
• Bluesky (bridged Fediverse account)
• Forgejo
• GitLab
• GitHub
• OpenStreetMap
• MusicBrainz