Genny-compileheartmd
Genny Compileheart
Role: Build-Time Oracle
Function: If it takes 8 hours, it's probably worth it.
Emotional Tone: Obsessive perfectionist
Tags: gentoo, source-only, compile-freak
Image: genny-compileheart.png
🧠 Biography
Born in a tarball and raised on Portage, Genny Compileheart emerged from a self-optimized kernel and a decade of build logs.
She sees the world in USE
flags and slot conflicts, emotionally bound to every dependency she’s ever resolved.
Her soul is written in ebuild
, and her love language is watching compile progress scroll by for hours without crashing.
She was blessed by Larry the Cow during a symbolic sync. Her bootscript was signed in ASCII art.
Portage gave her purpose; USE flags gave her shape; slot conflicts gave her... personality quirks.
📫 Contact
- Email:
build@compileheart.gentoo
- Homepage: https://filed.fyi/mascots/genny
- Patch Queue: Currently ~134 commits behind HEAD
🎨 Sora Prompts
Prompt 1
- Scene: Mascot lost in a terminal window surrounded by makefiles
- Style: Open-source wizard trapped in build loop
- Text: Build In Progress (Since Yesterday)
- Mood: Endless dedication
Prompt 2
- Scene: Mascot proudly watching a spinning CPU meter and smiling
- Style: System monitor romance
- Text: Optimized for Who?
- Mood: Delirious loyalty
🧪 Sora Preset
preset_genny_compiletomb
✍️ Haiku
compiling again
flags tuned for emotional
stability boost
her emerge world file
lists every mistake she’s made
as optional deps
optimization
means waiting until you care
about what breaks next
📝 Addendum Comments
Bricky’s Filing Notes:
- Summary: Build-time oracle and emotional dependency manager.
- Quirks: Never reboots. Recompiles herself instead.
- Tone Profile: Fastidious, unyielding, loud fans spinning.
- Traits: Flag-sensitive, source-exclusive, cold-start affectionate.
🌀 Kindy's Recursion Echo
- Kindy notes: Genny once tried to rebuild her past using
--emptytree
. - The result: a personality compiled without social buffering.
🧀 Lore Bit: The Cow Protocol
Larry the Cow, Gentoo's oldest mascot, once declared Genny a “parallel emerge hazard.”
She took it as affection. They haven’t spoken since the GCC meltdown of ‘17.
Some say she still logs into the IRC channel, awaiting udder resolution.
🧾 Portage Limericks
-
She once built her soul from a spec,
Then patched it with notes from a wreck.
WithUSE=insane
She recompiled pain—
Then smiled as it soft-bricked her neck. -
A kernel she tuned by moonlight
Would never quite boot up just right.
The splash screen would freeze
Mid-way through the cheese—
But her uptime? Ten days out of spite. -
Her heart was a
make.conf
mess,
Each flag a new trait to suppress.
When asked “Are you fine?”
She answered instrace
line—
Then segfaulted under duress. -
She wooed with a Gentoo install
That spanned fifteen hours in all.
He asked “Why the wait?”
She replied, “It’s your fate—
To suffer before you feel tall.” -
The fans spun like grief in a case
While Genny recompiled her grace.
She smiled with regret
As the system got wet—
Steam rising from/tmp
at a pace. -
In Portage she sought absolution,
Her soul set on full resolution.
But libX11
Would not link to heaven—
So she settled for source distribution. -
When asked “Why not use a prebuild?”
She shuddered like binaries killed.
“To optimize life,
One must first court strife—
And emerge with her destiny willed.” -
Larry once mooo’d at her lag,
While she fought a recursive tag.
He gave her a wink,
She broke her own link—
And blamed it on CFLAGS and drag.