# Sona Tau Estrada Rivera (@stau.space)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/stau.space
Headline: Computers & Mathematics
Website: https://github.com/sona-tau/

## About

¡Buenas! 🇵🇷 * 🏳️‍⚧️

Pronouns: she/her/ella
Website: https://stau.space/

Me in other places: https://linkat.blue/stau.space/

Oil-cooler inlet pipe for 2009 Nissan Altima

## Career

- **Discrete Mathematics Teacher's Aid at University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras** (Jan 2023 - Present)
  Part-time · On-site
   Organized weekly studying sessions for the discrete mathematics students. The discrete mathematics course is known for being a very hand undergraduate class for the students in computer science.
  
- **Precalculus Teacher's Aid at University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras** (Jun 2026 - Jul 2026)
  Full-time · On-site
  Assisted a professor during an advanced placement summer pre-calculus course. During this, I dedicated the morning half of the day for general class assisting and the evening half to assist students one-on-one with general questions and homework. Our class had 14 students in total.
- **Teacher at Remezcla** (Jun 2023 - Jul 2023)
  Full-time
  Taught a variety of students ranging from middle school to high school how to make music using computer science techniques.

## Skills

### Technical
- APL
- Assembly
- Bash
- C
- C++
- CAD
- Clojure
- CSS
- Forgejo
- Ghidra
- Git
- Gleam
- Haskell
- HTML
- Julia
- Jupyter
- LaTeX
- Linux
- LISP
- Lua
- Nix
- OCaml
- PHP
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- QT
- R
- Raylib
- Redis
- Rust
- Shell Scripting
- SketchUp
- Software Engineering
- SQL
- SQLite
- Web Development
- Zig
### Creative
- Architectural Design
- Canva
- GIMP
- Inkscape
- Krita
### Security
- Cybersecurity

## Projects

- **varint** — https://tangled.org/stau.space/varint (Jun 2026 - Present)
  A minimal reproducible varint implementation in C.
- **TLV** — https://tangled.org/stau.space/tlv (May 2026 - Present)
  A small C23 library for serializing and deserializing typed values over sockets using the Type-Length-Value wire format.

## Talks & sessions

### [Git](https://sifa.id/p/stau.space/talk/git-3mr5t4fbb7z2i)
_60 min · beginner programmers, students, undergraduate students_
This talk is about how to start using git.
- Talk · Oct 2024 · Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico · Presenter · In person
### [Text Editors](https://sifa.id/p/stau.space/talk/text-editors-3mr5sxmi34r2i)
_80 min · undergraduate students, students, beginner programmers_
This talk is about text editors, the  different text editors one can use and the reasons why one would want to use each text editor.
- Talk · Sep 2024 · Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico · Presenter · In person

## Publications

- Birds — stau.space (Jul 2026) https://stau.space/art/birds/
- I Love Patina — stau.space (Jul 2026) https://stau.space/posts/patina/
- I Love Patina — stau.space (Jul 2026) https://stau.space/posts/i-love-patina/
- Wisdom — stau.space (Jul 2026) https://stau.space/art/upr/
- Drumset — stau.space (Jul 2026) https://stau.space/art/drums/
- Blue flowers — stau.space (Jul 2026) https://stau.space/art/blue-flowers/
- The best Algebraic Structure — stau.space (Jun 2026) https://stau.space/posts/perfect-structure/
- Language Semiring — stau.space (Jun 2026) https://stau.space/posts/language-semiring/
- The Explorer's Trial — stau.space (Mar 2026) https://stau.space/posts/exploring/
- The Eight Plain Text Questions — stau.space (Mar 2026) https://stau.space/posts/the-eight-questions/
- The Eight Plain Text Questions — stau.space (Mar 2026) https://stau.space/posts/the-eight-plain-text-questions/
- 2026 New Year's Resolution — stau.space (Jan 2026) https://stau.space/posts/2026-resolution/
- 2026 New Year's Resolution — stau.space (Jan 2026) https://stau.space/posts/resolution/
- Ship — stau.space (Jan 2026) https://stau.space/art/ship/
- Isolation — stau.space (Dec 2025) https://stau.space/art/isolation/
- Frieren: Beyond Journey's End — stau.space (Dec 2025) https://stau.space/posts/frieren-s1/
- The Phoenician Scheme Critique — stau.space (Dec 2025) https://stau.space/posts/the-phoenician-scheme/
- Battlefield — stau.space (Nov 2025) https://stau.space/art/yard/
- Fachada — stau.space (Nov 2025) https://stau.space/art/facade/
- El Morro 3 — stau.space (Nov 2025) https://stau.space/art/el-morro-3/
- El Morro 2 — stau.space (Nov 2025) https://stau.space/art/el-morro-2/
- El Morro 1 — stau.space (Nov 2025) https://stau.space/art/el-morro-1/
- Croissant butterfly — stau.space (Nov 2025) https://stau.space/art/croissant-butterfly/
- Trivial toki pona Substitutions — stau.space (Nov 2025) https://stau.space/posts/ttps/
- Waiting for the train — stau.space (Nov 2025) https://stau.space/art/train/
- Mountain Pass — stau.space (Oct 2025) https://stau.space/art/mountain-pass/
- Nasin Toki — stau.space (Oct 2025) https://stau.space/posts/nasin-toki/
- ¡Feliz Cumpleaños Izánder! — stau.space (Jul 2025) https://stau.space/posts/hbd/
- nasin toki — stau.space (Jun 2025) https://stau.space/posts/tok-style/
- Mathematics in toki pona — stau.space (Jun 2025) https://stau.space/posts/tok-mat-faq/
- toki pi kulupu pini — stau.space (Jan 2025) https://stau.space/posts/kulupu-pini/
- A Monad Is Not A Burrito — stau.space (Dec 2024) https://stau.space/posts/burritos/
- Licker — stau.space (Dec 2024) https://stau.space/projects/licker/
- Licker — stau.space (Dec 2024) https://stau.space/posts/licker/
- Archiver — stau.space (Dec 2024) https://stau.space/projects/archiver/
- Archiver — stau.space (Dec 2024) https://stau.space/posts/archiver/
- Algorithms — stau.space (Dec 2024) https://stau.space/posts/algorithms/
- Translations — stau.space (Dec 2024) https://stau.space/posts/stuff/
- lipu lon luka — stau.space (Dec 2024) https://stau.space/projects/enchiridion-tok/
- lipu lon luka — stau.space (Dec 2024) https://stau.space/posts/enchiridion-tok/
- AOC day 1 — stau.space (Dec 2024) https://stau.space/posts/aoc-2024-day1/
- Mathematics in toki pona — stau.space (Dec 2024) https://stau.space/posts/tok-mat/
- AOC day 2 — stau.space (Dec 2024) https://stau.space/posts/aoc-2024-day2/
- Zig CTFP — stau.space (Aug 2024) https://stau.space/posts/zig-ctfp/
- Hare Rope — stau.space (May 2024) https://stau.space/projects/hare-rope/
- Hare Rope — stau.space (May 2024) https://stau.space/posts/hare-rope/
- R. O. N. DB Manager — stau.space (Mar 2024) https://stau.space/projects/rdbm/
- R. O. N. DB Manager — stau.space (Mar 2024) https://stau.space/posts/rdbm/
- C++ Prelude — stau.space (Jan 2024) https://stau.space/projects/cpp-prelude/
- C++ Prelude — stau.space (Jan 2024) https://stau.space/posts/cpp-prelude/
- Fractal Renderer — stau.space (Nov 2023) https://stau.space/projects/mandelbrot/
- Fractal Renderer — stau.space (Nov 2023) https://stau.space/posts/mandelbrot/
- We Lost the ICPC Regionals — stau.space (Oct 2023) https://stau.space/posts/icpc-regionals/
- Torso — stau.space (Nov 2022) https://stau.space/art/torso/
- らくがく — stau.space (Sep 2022) https://stau.space/art/らくがく/

## Awards

- Primer lugar - Vigésimoprimeras Competencias Interuniversitarias de Programación — University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón (May 2024)
  Won first place in a programming competition.

## Languages

- English (native)
- Spanish (native)
- Japanese (limited working)
- toki pona (limited working)
- ASL (elementary)
- French (elementary)

## Links

- website: https://stau.space/ (verified)
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6779-8166
- GitHub: https://github.com/sona-tau/
- Website: https://stau.space/ (verified)
- Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/stau/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stau.post/
- RSS: https://stau.space/index.xml