Hey, I'm Dylnuge (or Dylan, if you prefer first names)! I've had a Wikipedia account since 2005, but I only started seriously editing in the last year. I value being friendly and approachable,^[a] and love both helping people and learning new things. Please feel free to drop by my talk page and leave me a message!

I'm also Dylnuge on Discord (regularly) and IRC (occasionally) if you prefer to reach me there.

My preferred pronouns are he or they; feel free to use either. I tend to default to using they as a generic gender-neutral pronoun for others by default if I don't have any other information. Please let me know if I make a mistake; I firmly believe that trans rights are human rights and hate is disruptive.

I currently live in New York (specifically Brooklyn). I grew up in Chicago and lived in San Francisco for six years. I pretty much use my real identity everywhere on the internet because when I was 13 I thought it was a great idea and no one stopped me. I realize that if you are digging into me you can find a lot of information. I'd prefer you not pulling details you found about me elsewhere into discussions here.

I'm a software engineer, which probably isn't super relevant to most discussions, but I'm happy to help improve computing topics (especially systems, networking, security, software infrastructure, and software engineering practices) where some amount of experience is desirable. I apologize that half my citations in this area are from decade-old college textbooks.

Articles I created

• Autonomous (novel)

Articles I've contributed a decent chunk^[b] to

• Chicago Street Course
• Stockton Rush
• Unix time

Userspace subpages

• User:Dylnuge/mid-wel — for when I want to drop welcome links into a more personalized message
• User:Dylnuge/Links — for links I can never find when I need them

I enjoy finding and examining sources, improving existing articles, contributing to project discussions, patrolling recent and pending changes^[c], helping other editors, helping with backlogs, and apparently now I'm doing some from-scratch content creation. My tastes are eclectic and there's a good chance what I'll be working on something new next week.

I'm decently social and I love collaborating on things. This is probably the reason I find myself in a lot of talk and project space conversations. I like to be thorough and have a tendency to be verbose-by-default. If you're staring down a wall of text I wrote, note that my intent is very much not to bury you in words—please ask for clarification or summary if you need it! The usual "just my personal opinion" disclaimer applies too, of course.

If you're here because I changed something you wrote, left a message for you, or any number of other things, please reach out to me on my talk page. I make mistakes! I try to be helpful and friendly, but you know, I'm human, feel free to trout me if I'm being dense.