Mikini Services is a one man army, loaded up with weapons of mass-knowledge and experience from various embedded software and hardware niches and some experience with server backend development and operations. A heavy preference for open processes and solutions with freedom preserved permeates into to the decisions taken.

Combatants are Mikkel Kirkgaard Nielsen, BSc EE, Bachelor of Science in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, graduated from Aalborg University Esbjerg in 2001. A personal drive for technical perfection and a non-satisfiable curious attitude ensures warm fuzzy feelings about the stuff done here.

Find more details in the references below, or feel free to ask.

The primary operational domain is the internetional software ecosystem, but with practical and jurisdictional ties to Danish territory.

A constant strive is to keep in touch with the trends of the industry but cherish the past and have a lot of opinions about how stuff ought to be, all without prejudices and always observant and respectful of alternative ways of thinking. And on the large scale, accepting the dynamic and non-homogeneous universe as a playground of hyper-awesomeness.

The revenue-philosophy is more along the lines of good business with good karma, than better business with bad karma.

Online References

Check the complete public resume at one of your favorite search engines, what follows is a short (or maybe not) prioritised list of online presence.

Formal

• mikini.dk/cv stand alone curriculum vitae (aka. CV) (PDF format)
• linkedin.com/in/mikini

Public Code Forges

• savannah.gnu.org/users/mikini (GNU project’s Savane instance)
• sr.ht/~mikini (sourcehut main instance)
• codeberg.org/mikini (major FOSS forge, forgejo instance)
• gitlab.com/mikini (Gitlab main instance)
• git.fsfe.org/mikini (FSFE’s Gitea instance)
• git.gnu.io/mikini (Gitlab instance)
• gitlab.gnome.org/mikini (GNOME project’s Gitlab instance)
• launchpad.net/~mikini (Ubuntu/Canonical)
• sourceforge.net/users/mikini (the obsolete FOSS forge…)
• github.com/mikini (another obsolete FOSS forge… used for minimal contributions, I’m not at all fond of the proprietary monoculture instigated by them, even less after the MS deal and all the intelligence fuss)

Other Forges (text/language)

• ted.com/profiles/794879/translator
• transifex.com/user/profile/mikini/
• hosted.weblate.org/user/mikini/
• crowdin.com/profile/mikini

Open Data Projects

• openstreetmap.org/user/mikini
  • also operating the autoAWS bot
• da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruger:Kirkgaard
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kirkgaard

News Sites

• version2.dk/bruger/38959 (Danish technology publication)
• ingeniøren.dk/bruger/2676 (Danish engineering publication)
• news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikini
• reddit.com/user/mikini/

Social

• @mikini@fosstodon.org (instance of Mastodon)(interacting with fediverse using ActivityPub)
• @mikinis(@twitter.com)
• identi.ca/mikini (instance of pump.io)
• joindiaspora.com/u/mikini (instance/pod of Diaspora*)

Other

• openhub.net/accounts/mikini
• wiki.hackerspaces.org/User:Mikini
• hackaday.io/mikini
• stackexchange.com/users/5271805/mikini

Associations

Free Software Foundation

Mikkel has been supportive to the Free Software Foundation (FSF), the GNU project and the founder of both organisations, Richard M. Stallman (RMS) (see also RMS’ own bio or wikipedia), since he became aware of the awesomeness of sharing software under copyleft licenses during the very late 20th century (~1997). He is associate member #995630, been supporting sporadically since 2015, as associate member since 2021:

Mikkel had the pleasure of meeting Richard in person, during his visit to Denmark in May 2019 (see Danish blog post about this visit).

Mikkel & RMS (and GNU)
SDU, Odense, 2019-05-07

Mikkel and RMS portrait by Peter Carlsen located at Apollo Brewery, Copenhagen, Denmark. Stumbled upon this in May 2010. Produced in October 2005 as an endorsement of the FreeBeer project.

Free Software Foundation Europe

Mikkel was FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) fellow #2603, but decided to cool down on this association after the Fellowship to Supporter transition and the subsequent handling of the critique put forward by the last elected Fellowship Representative Daniel Pocock which brought to light the non-relationship between FSF and FSFE (see more at fsfellowship.eu and even more at techrights.com).

GeekLabs

Mikkel co-founded the Esbjerg, Denmark hackerspace/makerspace/fablab GeekLabs (on hackerspaces.org), but is on hiatus at the moment.

Legal & Contact Stuff

CVR number (Central Business Register): 30324072 (see also OpenCorporates)
LEI number (Legal Entity Identifier): 984500BCEF3E13EDFD02 (get yours at leiservice.dk)
Name: Mikini Services v/Mikkel Kirkgaard Nielsen
Address: Tjaereborg Stationsvej 1, 1. sal (2nd floor), DK-6731 Tjaereborg, Denmark (OpenStreetMap, findvej.dk, Google Maps)
Phone: +45 28139066
Email: services (swirly-one) mikini.dk

Cryptographic Keys

OpenPGP key

Import my PGP key into current user's keyring:
$ gpg --fetch-key https://mikini.dk/B369349A.asc

or

$ gpg --recv-key B369349A

Dump:
$ gpg --fingerprint B369349A | grep fingerprint && gpg --armour --export B369349A
Key fingerprint = B122 73D0 ADA1 9487 5AB5  6E7D 9DA5 B855 B369 349A
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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Secure Shell (SSH) key

Append my SSH key to current user’s authorized_keys (to allow remote access, relay IP and user name through other channels):

wget -q -O- https://mikini.dk/issy_id_ed25519.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Dump:
$ cat .ssh/id_ed25519.pub
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIEvN/A1hniSEOi+yC66R28eS12hIWiEUuq9tSiO8lskE @issy
$
 

Copyright & License

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