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Minersphere

Welcome to the only place where the Itlasy run free.

Hi! I am Linsinite, also previously known as MinersHavenM43. I am interested in mathematics, physics, programming, and linguistics, and this site is dedicated to these topics, especially mathematics as that is my main interest right now.

The high quality content on this site is hosted in the general Index section, which has subsections on Mathematics and Linguistics. There's also some other less quality content in the Miscellaneous section, created in the very beginning of this site's history back in late 2022.

Minersphere is hosted by my friend Sojens and developed entirely by me using raw HTML, CSS and PHP (latter used mostly for automation), although they did help me with the PHP backend early on.

Accessility note: the default styling of site is very inaccessible to people with vision issues. To this end there is an alternative style sheet, which in Firefox can be accessed in the View → Page Style menu. It is a bit clunky to activate, but it seems to be good enough to read comfortably according to the person who asked for this.

About me

Computers & operating systems

Like most people of my generation, I have been using computers since a really young age. My first computer was a laptop I got from my mom around 2013 when I was five years old, which had Ubuntu 12 installed. Sometime in early 2016 though its hard drive shattered, something that I still feel really sad about because of all the cool nostalgic stuff that was in there.

Shortly thereafter though I got my first proper built computer, which saw normal use until early 2018 when I wanted it replaced for some reason. Fortunately, its hard drive is still alive! It did have some interesting things when I first browsed it after not having looked at it for so long, although nothing as nearly cool as what would have been in the laptop.

Then I got my third and current computer, which by this point I have been using for eight and a half years, with no part replacement beside the power unit at the start of 2022, which also led to my computer missing part of its case because I was and still am too lazy to put it back. The computer started out with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18, which remained until I installed Ubuntu 20 in September 2021. In July 2022, I quit using Windows because I had noticed it had become unbearably slow at times, as well as the usual Linux reason of privacy and customizability. In April 2024, I switched from Ubuntu to Mint because its company was "too shady". Bit of a weak reason, I think I really just wanted something new. Next time I'd switch was in August 2026 from Mint to Endeavour, as I became especially annoyed at Mint's fixed release model because my careless adding of recent repositories had caused it to become increasingly unstable. As of writing, this is the main operating system I use.

Programming & mathematics

The first time I can recall I've programmed anything in a text-based programming language was in Lua back when I still played Roblox from late 2016 to early 2019. It was mostly extremely basic though. This was until I started programming in Python somewhere during 2020, with the vision of creating an open world(?) terminal based game but with no clear game objective. In May 2021 I wanted to make a mod for the game HyperRogue, a game whose primary distinctive feature is its hyperbolic geometry, which made be learn about C++, although due to the creator's very C influenced style it's more accurate to say I learned more C than C++ as I barely learned any of its more advanced features. With the addition of JavaScript, these are the three languages I like to say I know well.

In June 2024, I watched a video by Kyle Hill that talked about four dimensions. This specifically for whatever reason sparked a massive interest in four dimensions, and about a month later in late July 2024 I started working on a visualizer for higher dimensional polytopes, Dimvis. Very interestingly, this was the only project I stopped working on not because of demotivation but because it was complete enough, something that for whatever reason had never really happened before. This interest also made me want to talk about superdimensional geometry on this site, reviving it after one and a half years of very rare activity. This interest has unfortunately been declining during 2026, and I've ran out of ideas of what to write about on this site.

Languages

The two languages I am fluent in are Portuguese, being my native language, as well as English. I have been learning English since 2018, and while I did have English classes before then from school those did not make me anywhere near good at the language. I distinctly remember learning it specifically from watching Eddsworld, although typing this out now did make me realize how dubious of a memory that is. Because I tend to spend most of my free time on my computer with English media, I don't really listen to Portuguese all that much during weekends and university breaks, and this has kind of caused me to be better at English than Portuguese at times, which apparently is a phaenomenon that occurs to many other multilinguals.

Since mid May 2026, I have been learning Mandarin. As of last updating this (read down), it's still at a beginner level. In writing, I can recognize some characters, usually the grammatical particles as well as some specific nouns or verbs. The actual reason I started learning it is quite silly; on a civilizations Minecraft server I joined I made a nation called Khitan, named after a planet in my fictional world which was in turn subconsciously named after an extinct language from northern China. I then started to use Chinese within the nation and it ended up snowballing into me fully commiting to learning the language.

From spending a lot of time browsing Wiktionary to make up names for things, I also know some Latin, Ancient Greek and Old English, with my knowledge of first and last being mostly from the languages I already speak. As for scripts, I know the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets. I used to also know the Hangul and Armenian alphabets during around 2021 and 2022.

Other

Other pieces of trivia about me include:

Friends' sites

Darflen - Paradock's site, Twitter clone.

Keuraland - Keura's site, has her art and programming projects.

Zagjesphere - Zagyen's site, has some of his web applications.

Fifty Third Dimension - Tessimal's site, has mathematics, geometry, engineering content and more.

Quithiteverse - Quasitruncated Hexahedron's site, has his linguistics and conlanging projects.

Sojens' various sites - Ranges from social media, stories and some games.

Changelog

Dates are usually in "my 6 a.m. timezone" (UTC−09), unless I don't want them to in which case they're in UTC−03.

Licensing

Unless otherwise specified, the content on this site is licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.

Attribution

Header font is Space Mono.

Text font is DejaVu Sans Mono.

Math font is Latin Modern Math.

Title bar theme heavily inspired by SCP-6747.

Title bar background image by PantheraLeo1359531: 3Abox - Mod Kali-Eiffie OpenCL 530397915 32K 19052019.jpg.