About

This is the web presence of Valentin Boettcher a.k.a. Hiro98.

Valentin:

• is a PhD student @ McGill University under the supervision of the wonderful Bill Coish.
• codes stuff.
• is a science-fiction junky and space enthusiast.
• loves jamming with the saxophone.
• is hooked on LISP and Clojure.
• appreciates C++.
• uses python a fair bit.
• likes his Kyria.

You can check out my Github, Gitlab and KDE Invent profiles for most of my projects as I publish the source to most things I produce.

I’ve got a CV.

My usual internet/user/nick name is Hiro or Hiro98 after Hiro Protagonist from Neal Stephenson’s novel “Snow Crash”, who is usually depicted in profile pictures like the following one.

Things Made

• The source of this website lives here.
• I’ve written a bachelor’s thesis about Monte Carlo Event Generators. I even built my own in python.
• A simple, easy-to-use and firewall penetrating control software for streaming stuff from rtmp cams to youtube.
• Along with a commilitone I’ve written some lecture notes about Quantum Information.
• The website of SimuNova.
• The software behind klausurnoug.at.
• A visualization of neutrino oscillations.
• A python library to calculate the gaussian error propagation.
• A small hack to scrape and organize physics courses at the TU-Dresden. See it in action.
• A script to convert the wunderlist export to org-mode.
• A script to create an arch linux image with bcachefs support.
• I’ve made the website and some of the continuous integration for the SHERPA project.
• A new midi brain for my KSP-30.

Activities

• I am the admin and the most enthusiastic user of the TU-Dresden Physics Forum.

• I am an occasional contributor to KStars. As of late I have participated in the Google Summer of Code to implement a better Deep-Sky-Object backend.

  I also implemented and now maintain the KStars DSO Catalog Repository.

• Sometimes I release some noises on Soundcloud and Bandcamp under the name “Abschreibung für Abnutzung”.

• I am also the maintainer of the RoyalCam backend which is also used by the Urban Wildlife Trust for their Wildcams.