I am Sara Jakša (sarajaksa@sarajaksa.eu) , and this is my website.

Who I am / About me

Location

• Current location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Planned trips: /
• Planned time without the internet: /

Introduction

*Waiving here* Sara (any/she) here. You can feed me stories, interesting facts (from linguistics and history to physics), and daydreams. And fanfiction, that is currently my big interest (expecially if it is Sherlock Holmes related, even more if it is Yuumori). I very rarely bite.

I am a woman in 30s, living in Ljubljana. I dance at TEJ Dance and play go at the local library. Occasionally I will pop out in different library events, university lectures, language cafe, dancing or board game events. Always up for a walk, if anybody wants to invite me.

Now

I make monthly reviews these days and that is probably the best way to figure out what I am doing currently. Here is the last montly review.

My Communities

In person, I would consider myself part of these communities:

• Go playing
• Dancing
• Queer and a-spec
• Women programmers
• Python community
• Tech community Ljubljana

In the past, I considered myself part of these in-person communities:

• Language learning
• International Community Ljubljana
• Drawing
• Cognitive science students
• Toastmasters Ljubljana

Online, I consider myself part of these communities:

• IndieWeb
• Fanfiction community
• Yuumori fandom
• Yuumori Rare Ships Discord

My current fandoms:

• YuuMori - Yuukoku no Moriarty / Moriarty the Patriot (main)

Interests

I have seen the Frances' list of interests and I figured it might he helpful to list of them them as here on the website as well.

• A-spec (asexuality and aromanticism) and queerness
• Go playing
• Dancing
• Language learning
• Fanfiction
• Cognitive science
• Public speaking (former Toastmasters member, tech public speaker and had one stand up comedy)
• Reading
• Anime / manga / light novels
• Sherlock Holmes
• Writing
• Women in tech
• Sustanability
• Minimalism
• History (with very uneven knowledge)
• Slovenian history and politics
• Decision making

I am sure I missed many of them, and I don't consider this list definitive. The problem I have is that I am very easy excitable for a lot of things. The upper ones ar least stayed with me for multiple years.

About this site

Short philosophy of my site

This site is a work in progress. It is one small part to have an online presence, and a bigger part to force myself to sometimes actually sent in the public the stuff, that is not yet finished. It started by having a conversation one evening at the cafe, which was more like dare or encouragement then with any specific goal.

Parts of my site

If you want to know more about me, you can check some of the below pages:

• For my talks and my CV, you can go to my CV page cv
• For my writings, you can check my blog blog
• For the media, that I watch, you can check my read books list or the list of other media like movies

If you want to follow me, you can always subscribe to my RSS feed. You can put my website URL in, and most readers should be able to find the RSS feed URL for you.

Language

The note about the post languages, my native language is Slovenian and I think I am fairly fluent in English. Every other language is something I am still learning and therefore probably have a lot of mistakes that I would not see even when re-reading it.

I accept the communication in any language.

I am learning a lot of other languages. I can read books in Japanese, Croatian and Serbian. I can struggle through some German. I have learned at least a bit of Hungarian, Slovak, Italian and French in the past. I am accepting the communication in any of these and I promise I will at least try to read them in these languages. The rest of them I will probably use the machine translation. The Firefox one if available for that language, otherwise Google translate.

Spoiler policy

My spoiler policy is, that I don't care abut spoilers. They are not going to be marked or hidden and I will not warn for them.

NSFW (Not Safe for Work) Policy

I am a type of person that announced my asexuality on the stage of Python conference, did standup comedy, presented the fanfiction talk at work first, which at the time still mentioned omegaverse. Mentioned things like omorashi and vore at work before and I write occasional smut (even when I am more of a gen writer) on the blog under the name I use in offline life, that I know some people at work occasionally read.

I don't think I understand what NSFW means for normal people. Making the only reasonable policy that it is probably present and not warned for.

Usage Statement

If my writing inspires any idea, or you want to use any idea expressed anywhere in this blog that is by me, you are free to do with it whatever you want, with citation or without. I would like to hear about it, but you are not required to tell me. This is true for words, code, drawings and any other expression.

You are allowed to quote me with the citation and, if on the internet, the link back. No need to inform me of that.

If you like a piece of the code on this website, you are free to copy and use it for any purpose. You don't need to attribute it to me.

If you want to use my words or drawings or any other expression beside code on this website, please ask first. The same is true for translation and changing to the audio.

I forbid the usage of my work on this side for any traning of the neural networks.

Also, if I forgot something, tell me and I will add it to it.

How to link to my site or cite it

As inspired by the James' example.

I don't have a strong preference to how I am called - when people in person comment that they are not good with names, I always reply that I don't care if they call me any name they want, from Marija or Franc and I mean it. If you don't want to expend the energy to decide, then using my actual name Sara is always a good choice.

I also don't have the preference for the pronouns or the gender of the language used for me - use whatever you want. She, he, they, it, or any of the neopronouns work for me as do any genders for the languages I know. For myself in Slovenian, I used the mixture of female with some men language thrown in some circumstances (in Slovenian one can skip pronouns, but we indicate a gender with each verb and adjective, where we decide between the equivalents of she, he and it). In English I use the mixture of she and they. In Japanese, I like to use 俺 for myself, with occasional 私 when trying to be more polite, without preference to how other people refer to me.

If you are linking to me to indicate that you are talking about me, then I prefer if you linked to this domain and not any of the other profiles that I might have on the web. (I won't be angry if you don't though) For the academic citing, please use me full name: Sara Jakša.

Links or description of other people

If you want me to remove a link to you or if you think you recognise yourself and want me to reword that part, send me an email and I will make sure to amend it.

(Anti-)AI Statement

All my work included in this website does not involve any involvement of any addictive brain-destroying plagiarism machine(genAI) , in any part of it.

When writing in the language I am not fluent at, I sometimes use the machine translation to check the text that I had written. Which means that I will put my text and check if the translation makes sense and change my text based on that. None of my published words are machine translated.

For the works of other people, like quotes from other sites, static site generator that I am using or what my host provider is using, I didn't do any checks if some of them are machine generated.

The work of other people in this site

• The icon for AO3 was taken from the osteophage / Coyote's icon page
• The site is generated with Nikola static site generator

How to contact me

Email

You can always reach me on my email: sarajaksa@sarajaksa.eu . This and in person are my preferred ways of communication.

My other accounts

You can find me on some other places as well. I have these account, but I check them a lot less frequently, so keep that in mind, if you are contacting me throgh one of these:

• AO3 (Archive of our Own): sarajaksa
• Discord: sarajaksa
• Pixiv: sarajaksa
• GitHub: sarajaksa
• IndieWeb Profile: sarajaksa.eu
• OGS (online-go.com) sarajaksa
• Europian Go Database: Sara Jakša
• Tumblr: sarajaksa

I am mostly using a phone to communicate with my family member. So I give my phone number only to people, that I already know and I see it would solve a specific problem. Otherwise I don't give it up. You will have to accept, that I am not sharing it and I will attack anybody giving it to other people with a paper fan.

Ways of Communicating

I am always open for any kind of contact. I am also the type of person, that will explicitly tell, if I find somebody annoying. Even then I won't be insulted by it.

I like the it means that other people don't have to worry about whether they are insulting you of the Crocker's Rules (copied from bacardi55). You can assume this to be true.

My cadence tends to be slower than the social media one. If I did not answer you, then it is on me. Usually it is because I don't have energy, I did not see it yet (I use my vacations from work to be internet-free, in which case it can take weeks for me to see it), or I don't yet know what to answer. I know it does not feel like it, but it is always my fault, so don't take it to your heart.

Language

I accept the communication in any language.

My native language is Slovenian. I am also fluent in English.

I am still in the process of learning other langauges. I can read books in Japanese, Croatian and Serbian. I can struggle through some German. I have learned at least a bit of Hungarian, Slovak, Italian and French in the past. I am accepting the communication in any of these and I promise I will at least try to read them in these languages. The rest of them I will probably use the machine translation. The Firefox one if available for that language, otherwise Google translate.

How to start the conversation with me

If you want to start a conversation, you can always ask any of the below questions (copied the idea from Marr):

• What have you been reading?
• What problem are you thinking about?
• What did you recently learned?
• Any fanfiction ideas you are working on?
• What movies/anime did you watch recently?
• What non-computer hobby are you trying this time? (probably go and dancing, but I might surprise you)
• Ask me about the latest Yuumori chapter?

Or start with just a random observations you had - I really like learning about almost anything. Or any questions that you have. I have high three digits posts and I am usually up to talking about the things from years ago.

I am also open to any kind of co-creating suggestions. If you want us to cowrite something, I am usually up for it.