About Me (Rapid Fire)

I’m Hayden Walker, and I’m the author, webmaster, maintainer, and server administrator for this site. It’s a one-man show. If you’re interested in a more detailed ‘origin story’ of sorts, click here. This page is more of a factsheet.

Quick Facts

Basics

• I’m from New Brunswick, Canada.
• I’m studying computer science at Mount Allison University, with a minor in math.
• I also work as a TA and a research assistant.
• I self-host this site from my basement.
• My first language is English, mais je parle français (B2) und ein bisschen Deutsch (A2).

More Interesting

• I’m a member of the International Society of Mad Scientists (go to the membership directory and control-F my name).
• I own a Klein bottle that was made by Cliff Stoll.
• I have numbers of Pi signed by Brady Haran of Numberphile.
• I collect calculators and I display them in an online museum that you can visit.
• I submitted code to the GitHub Arctic Code Vault.
• I can eat a 1/2-pound Halifax-style donair in roughly 90 seconds.

Technical

• I’m a member of my university’s competitive programming club.
• I primarily program in Java and Python. I recently began learning C.
• In high school I participated in the Cyber Patriot/Cyber Titan cybersecurity competition twice.

My Interests

Some things I like include, but are not limited to:

• Math
• Computers
• Calculators
• Boardgames, specifically Euro-style strategy games
• Learning German
• Collecting watches
• Building electronics projects
• Robots
• Music – my tastes range from death metal, to classic rock, to Atlantic Canadian folk music, to chiptunes, and beyond.
• Free-as-in-freedom software
• Conway’s Game of Life
• UNIX
• Gardening – a real garden has gnomes and plastic flamingos.
• My cat Fluffy