User:Maffblaster

I'm a Christ follower, a husband to my beautiful wife Christina, and man who loves to learn. My plan is to help improve the Gentoo sphere around the web by adding and improving documentation, aiding in website maintenance, and exercising system administration knowledge. As I continue learning about Gentoo it only makes sense to help make it better for everyone by helping out.

My personal gratitude is owed to all past and present Gentoo developers who commit thousands of hours a month into making Gentoo the best distribution ever created!

Want to message me directly in your web browser? You can do so via Freenode's secure (as in HTTPS) webchat client:, on Telegram, or on Slack. Be sure to highlight me by typing my nickname in the message so I'll see it!

Lets make Gentoo better together!

 Ebuild development
I'd like to look after these packages:


 * Brackets
 * DemonSaw
 * FLIF
 * git-lfs
 * -bin
 * Geeknote
 * kpatch
 * LightTable
 * -bin
 * MakeKit
 * N1
 * Nixnote
 * Perfect Paper Passwords
 * Piwik
 * Plinth
 * PowerBroker Open
 * Profanity
 * SocioBoard
 * Sopel
 * Titan
 * Stress-ng
 * Unreal Engine
 * Variety
 * Waterfox
 * wimlib
 * ZeroBin

 Experimental

 * stager
 * gencache

ebook repository
Work in progress...

 Wiki improvement
Adding and correcting information here on the wiki is one of my main responsibilities as a developer. Here is some information on how I'm improving the wiki:

Tasks
 * Todo
 * Propositions
 * Completed tasks

Articles
 * Drafts
 * Published
 * /sandbox
 * /tmp

Admin
 * /copypasta

Stats
 * active users.
 * articles.
 * pages.

 Personal

 * Pim Vullers and myself (but mainly Pim) are working to bring Pantheon (Elementary OS's Desktop Environment) to Gentoo. Our efforts can be found in Pim's overlay.
 * I'm currently (slowly) working on a Python 3 based installer for Gentoo-based Linux distributions. I've dubbed it . Visit the project article and GitHub page to see more.
 * I have started work on a Linux-based distribution called Vitality. Vitality will be a lightweight, friendly (I'm talking to you, Raspberry PI users!), Gentoo-based Linux distribution. This project is halted while I take a break to study operating system essentials and Linux on embedded systems...
 * I run an organization called Digital Survival (currently a blog), that discusses, among other things, how to become as self-sufficient (digitally) as possible. Contact me on Freenode IRC at.
 * Am a member of the PR team and regularly post Gentoo-related news to our social sites.
 * Here's a list of applications I recommend each user should install in order to improve their Gentoo experience.
 * Ideas for Gentoo (improvements of small scope).
 * Raising Gentoo to prominence  (improvements of large scope).
 * Experiments - A sub-article that holds various ideas I'd like to explore.
 * Notes - Some notes for personal reference.

 Notebooks

 * HP Pavilion dv5t-1000 - Coming soon.
 * HP Pavilion 15-ab292nr
 * Lenovo Thinkpad W530
 * Lenovo Thinkpad T420
 * Acer Chromebook C720

 Desktops

 * ASUS M4A79T Deluxe
 * /Drafts/ASRock Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming
 * /Drafts/Power Mac G5

 Embedded

 * Raspberry Pi (Model B)
 * Pine64(+) - Coming soon.
 * CHIP - Send me one?
 * Nexus 6

</i> Previous notebooks

 * MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)

My software

 * Vitality - A Gentoo-based distribution.


 * - Like aptcacher, but for Gentoo.
 * - A Python powered kernel audit tool.
 * - A daemon to parse and react to kernel cmdline arguments.
 * - A cross-platform desktop screenshot boasting tool.

Links

 * Recent changes - See what other people have been doing here on the Wiki (sometimes I look to be encouraged).
 * https://maffblaster.github.io/ - Find out more about my faith and other interests on my blog.
 * http://www.digitalsurvival.us/ - If you are interested in helping out with some of the projects I'm working on message me on Freenode IRC using the nickname found in the InfoBox above. If you use email I will never see it.
 * - My Gentoo 'New Developer' bug.