DandelionSprout - Overview (original) (raw)

My name is Imre Eilertsen, from Trondheim, Norway. I use GitHub very extensively to work on adblocker list projects, as well as on translations for open-source projects.

My main repo where I host the lists that I own, has ≥135 lists for 3 dozen extensions and programs, of which around 85 were made from scratch, the latter of which is the standing world record that I'm aware of. I'm also on very good contributive terms with the teams of all of the Big 3 of adblockers: uBlock Origin, AdGuard, and Adblock Plus; as seemingly the only person in the world to do so simultaneously. However, ABP is the only one among them where I hold an official team position as a paid online freelancer.

My translation career (For the most part English → Norwegian Bokmål; somewhat outdated list) on GitHub is also very solid, in fact so long that it's not possible to list them all. It includes in roughly chronological order from earliest to recentmost, but is not at all limited to, Barcode Scanner, DNS66, PCSX2, Unchecky, Tampermonkey, App Locale 2, Etar, Android DVB-T Driver, Amaze File Manager, Simple File Manager, Locale Emulator, MAME, Call Recorder, Magisk Manager, NTP Pool, DBAD Public License, piclone, pishutdown, lxplug-volume, lxpanel, Mintty, pipanel, rp-prefapps, lxplug-network, and lxplug-bluetooth. Outside of GitHub, my greatest translation accomplishments include VLC, Audacity, PaintNET, Voidtools Everything, XNViewMP, PeaZip, ElementIO, Mastodon, and Bitwarden; this became especially important after Crowdin became the general standard after most translated projects moved there from Transifed/GitHub/PhraseApp.

On the side, I've worked with a dozen or so wiki projects and, Sims 3 gamemods, and continuous chef practicing. Have tried various chef- and sorting-related jobs on the side while doing adblocking; the jobs rarely stuck around for long.

For a newspaper-interview-esque Q&A that probably no one asked for, read on below:

• Favourite food: Microwave chicken, I guess. Fits well on days where the couch feels nice. On days where I feel better, I like me some German-style chicken fricassée, or various chips-and-sauce meals.
• Favourite drink: Coop Spirit (A soda brand). With sugar. On the rocks with ice. Often the only nutrition I can obtain if I feel ill.
• Favourite TV show: Netflix's Bad Sport was pretty splendid. Watches anti-hipster cartoons from time to time, but on a rolling basis where I never watch them for more than 3 years or so.
• Favourite movie: None. I've got good enough movie memory that I can't just casually rewatch a movie on the spot.
• Favourite videogame genres:
• • Racing games (Things like Burnout 3/Revenge, Gran Turismo 3-4, Sonic All-Stars Transformed, What The Car)
  • Specific open-world games (Sims 3, Grand Theft Auto V / Vice City Def Ed)
  • 3D platformers (Most Ratchet & Clank games, Fall Guys, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane's PC version).
• Listens to: S-pop (My term for Nordic-origin pop/techno/country), compilated at https://www.deezer.com/playlist/4419236002.
• Love of my life: None. Lost the ability to love in 2020-21, due to various traumas, observations of others' relationships, and heavy medications.
• Children: None (Voluntarily sterilised).
• Avatar source: An OC for the original Lalaloopsy Nickelodeon cartoon I tried to draw in 2016. I'm far from being ArtStation or Pixiv levels of good.
• Work environment: An allround multimedia quasi-workstation PC with Windows 11. MX Blue keyboard, sideheld Evoluent mouse, AOC AGON 1440p 165Hz IPS monitor in portrait mode, 5.1 surround with 3 pairs of USB speakers, a 10Gb Ethernet LAN setup, and 500/500 FttH broadband.

Owing to the hefty amounts of medications I need to keep me somewhat calm in everyday life, incl. lamotrigine, sertraline, and diazepam, my ability to perform physical labour is not much to write home about, and sometimes even making dinners or walking to the supermarkets prove too exhausting to do.