--- title: Me --- Personal details == My name is Troels Henriksen, I'm a hacker from Denmark. Computing is my primary passion, and I study it at home as well as at the [University of Copenhagen](http://diku.dk), where I work as a postdoctoral researcher. My email address is and my public key is available [here](/pubkey.asc). However, the best way to contact me is on IRC. While I do have non-computer interests, this is the Internet, so I won't get into those. My computer interests are: * **Simplicity.** I think modern computers are too slow, too fragile, and too incorrect, and I believe the root cause is uncontrolled complexity. Attempts to introduce simplicity by mindlessly adding abstraction layers are ultimately counterproductive. Simplicity is best achieved by lowering feature count and flexibility. * **Freedom.** Important societal infrastructure code should be free from a moral point of view. Other kinds of code should be free because collaborating is fun! * **Tinkering.** Computers are toys for the mind. My main claim to fame is my participation in [topDatamat](http://topdatamat.dk), a Danish (English subtitles) sketch show, as terrible actor and decent script author.