Welcome!

This site is created by Thomas Gordon, a kiwi studying computer engineering at Brown University. Many people know me online as metaterminal.

During my studies, I've designed CPUs, built instruments with Arduino controllers, and helped install an interactive LED screen on Brown's Center for Information Technology building. (I want to document some of these things on this website soon.)

Currently, I work as a research assistant at Brown's Center for Computation and Visualization. My studies help make CCV's computing cluster more cost-effective and climate efficient.

In my spare time, I create puzzlehunts, write fiction, host a podcast, play guitar, help run an annual awards show, and make cool things. (Some of the cool things are on this website!)

Current projects

Technical details

This site is run using the static site generator Zola, with individual pages written using Markdown, and deployed using Netlify. I don't use a Zola theme or anything like that; any functionality on here, I have implemented myself.

(Should I have used React or some other kind of framework? Perhaps! But I enjoyed creating everything from scratch; implementing new features is fun! I also enjoy how lightweight the end result is.)

This site is entirely static. That means no ads and fast load times. I plan to keep my site like this for as long as I have it up.

I also host the websites for Brown Puzzle Club and the Bravo Puzzle Awards, which use an identical tech stack.

The font on this website is Hack.

Contact me

I'm not looking to be contacted, but if there is something you want to reach out to me about, then you can find me at altmetaterminal at gmail dot com.