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+This blog's main focus is on interesting things you can do in Python, C++ and other languages. You might find posts about other topics if I manage to twist someone's arm hard enough.
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+# Authors
+## Che
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+My name is not actually Che, I'm currently 28 years old and live in Munich. I used to study games engineering at [TUM](https://www.tum.de/) and currently study computational linguistics at [LMU](https://www.lmu.de/), while also working as an embedded firmware engineer for a life sciences and lab automation company.
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+I'm mostly interested in C++ "compile time" shenanigans, Python tomfoolery, RPC and whatever else seems odd but also oddly interesting. Other than that I do play bass in a couple of bands, look like metal Jesus and am a trained church organ player. 
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+Some of my recent projects include:
+- **[repr](https://github.com/Tsche/repr) / [repr.wtf](https://repr.wtf)**: A C++ static reflection library that mimics Python's `repr()`.
+- **[magic_codec](https://github.com/Tsche/magic_codec) / [Python's Preprocessor](posts/PythonsPreprocessor)**: A modular Python preprocessing utility that uses a custom codec.
+- **[slo::variant](https://github.com/Tsche/variant/tree/develop) / blog post TBD**: Mostly compliant `std::variant` implementation that does some experimental optimizations, including rearranging the underlying storage as a tree to reduce maximum recursion depth for alternative retrieval
+- **[crashbench](https://github.com/Tsche/crashbench)**: Compile time benchmarking and diagnostic/death test utility. This uses a custom DSL to hide configuration in valid C++ attributes.
+- **[palgen](https://github.com/palliate/palgen) / [Docs](https://palgen.palliate.io)**: Command line tool built around a highly modular extension system. This is meant to simplify writing common utility scripts by reducing boilerplate a lot.
+- **[cpppp](https://github.com/Tsche/cpppp)**: C++ preprocessor that uses C++ as macro language.
+- **[palliate](https://github.com/palliate) / [palliate.io](https://palliate.io)**: Remote desktop application that allows in-memory streams from virtual machines with dedicated graphics cards. Currently on hold.
+- **[crashbench](https://github.com/Tsche/crashbench)**: Diagnostics/death testing utility. Abandoned and replaced by crashbench.
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+Aside from that I do own the [Better C++ Discord community](https://discord.gg/byZvFu7d94). Feel free to join it :)