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toaster
@toastbits.dev

$ whoami

Talo Halton
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I’m a 19 year-old British-Japanese guy who likes writing code to solve problems. Since teaching myself Python in 2019, I’ve been improving my skills and learning new ones.

I enjoy a making variety of different types of software, ranging from scripts for my Linux desktop to games and fullstack multiplatform applications.



$ ls /skills

Other things I'm interested in

Spoken languages

  • English (native)
  • Japanese (fluent)


$ ls /projects | head -5

A Meta Quest app serving as an alternative to BMBF's Beat Sync function for Beat Saber, designed with VR in mind.

LiveRail

2023
~
2024

A-Level computer science project. Top-down simulation of a railway using real-world timetable and map data.

SpMp

2022
~
present

A YouTube Music client for Android and Desktop I've been working on since August 2022. I've implemented useful queue manipulation features, as well as language and metadata customisation options.

A basic 2D and 3D game engine I made as my first C++ project, including a basic voxel implementation. Basically a remake of Godot as far as the engine API goes.

An (unfinished) Metroidvania with simple geometric graphics and Celeste-inspired movement.

$ pwd
/home/toaster

$ neofetch
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          ▜███▙       ▜███▙  ▟███▛            ------------------
           ▜███▙       ▜███▙▟███▛             OS: NixOS x86_64
            ▜███▙       ▜██████▛              Kernel: 6.6.32
     ▟█████████████████▙ ▜████▛     ▟▙        Shell: fish
    ▟███████████████████▙ ▜███▙    ▟██▙       Displays: 1920x1080 (x2)
           ▄▄▄▄▖           ▜███▙  ▟███▛       DE: Hyprland
          ▟███▛             ▜██▛ ▟███▛        Theme: Catppuccin Mocha (Lavender)
         ▟███▛               ▜▛ ▟███▛         Terminal: kitty
▟███████████▛                  ▟██████████▙   CPU: Intel i7-3770 (8) @ 3.900GHz
▜██████████▛                  ▟███████████▛   GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 6650 XT
      ▟███▛ ▟▙               ▟███▛            Memory: 15892MiB
     ▟███▛ ▟██▙             ▟███▛
    ▟███▛  ▜███▙           ▝▀▀▀▀              IDE: Visual Studio Code
    ▜██▛    ▜███▙ ▜██████████████████▛        Engine: Godot
     ▜▛     ▟████▙ ▜████████████████▛         Keyboard: 75% (brown)
           ▟██████▙       ▜███▙               Music: J-pop, rock
          ▟███▛▜███▙       ▜███▙              Github: toasterofbread
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$ fortune