Philo's Homepage

Hi, I'm Philomena (Филоме́на)!

Welcome to my homepage!

I'm a hacker, photographer, trans girl, and an oscilloscope enthusiast.

I write mainly in English, but I can make myself understood en español (con un accento extraño ecuatoriana-estaunidense) and can read the Cyrillic alphabet.

Some things I've made and done that I think are cool, in no particular order:

oscilloscope drawings
network stack hackery
OpenTTD mods (or, more precisely, one newGRF with balance issues)
Long Lines photography
phone phreaking CTF challenges
Fiction
- I've written a whole bunch of short-to-medium stories, mostly about lesbians, witches, and robots
a deep dive into photography in the Bell System
reverse-engineering of a MBTA red line indicator with Tris Wilson
a fish that can be used to pay MBTA fares
rotating.boston, a spinning 3D model of Boston City Hall
- I also wrote a blog post about how I made it

Under no circumstances may any material distributed through this website – textual, photographic, or otherwise – be used in any blockchain-related technology, including, but not limited to non-fungible tokens, cryptocurrency, or future innovations in that technological space.

I'm on Mastodon (Taco Bell Labs), Cohost, BlueSky, Twitter (replies/likes only; no new posts), and GitHub if you'd like to see more of my madness.

If you'd like to keep up with my writing outside of social media, I have a RSS feed

My very cool friends: