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Well hello there!

I'm Andrei Jiroh Halili (he/they), an 18 year old Autistic¹ Filipino student, self-taught backend developer (in training), open-source contributor, building Recap Time Squad², and part-time blogger for my personal blog and The Bloody Hell PH based in Marilao, Bulacan, Philippines. I'm passionate about Linux (especially shell scripting and all things software packaging, currently Alpine Linux package maintainer for GitHub CLI), DevSecOps, programming (not only in JavaScript, but I am also exploring Python, Go and other languages), politics (cough Philippine politics in lens of foreigners while disabled with Honest Government Ads level of satire) and internet health (things like fandom toxicity and cancel culture).

I am pretty searchable at @ajhalili2006 on GitHub, sourcehut, and across the fediverse (or via Threads). Here's my contact details if you need to contact me.

More about me

Currently, I am participating in Hack Club Arcade to work through my personal projects throughout the first month of my last school year in senior high school and get some stuff in return (once reviewed to prevent abuse), like those Yubikey 5C NFC with GitHub logo and stickers, and also keeping up with all things Hack Club and virtually meeting with the community of high school coders and communities fiscally hosted by them³ through their Slack workspace.

Outside of being a Linux enthusiast and JS dev myself, I am mostly seen lurking and joining lore discussions over at ~mikedmoy's Discord server⁴. I am not only followed animators and furries (please send help in the backrooms if I need to eyebleach on NSFW art), but also (not just anime) roleplaying accounts, SubStack writers and even fellow devs and disabled people (not just autistics).

Why I code + use Linux?

My journey in coding started at Glitch.com in 2017-2018 to learn a bit of Node.js, while my Linux journey started few months after that using VirtualBox. Some suggest that it started off being a internet addict (the words in strikethrough is a bit of a stigma in itself due to being one of my coping mechanisms while autistic myself)⁵ chronically online Autist myself.

I code, usually in JavaScript for backend stuff, especially building APIs and learning all things databases through Prisma, not only to learn how to build apps and tools, but also as a way to express myself and unload the baggage from my own traumas through code and technical documentation. Although I am sort of semi-closeted and introverted neurodivergent person, I try to document things in the public through daily notes on my wiki and my personal launchpad issue tracker and occasionally over at my socials.

I use Linux, since using Windows is always a nightmare for not only software development (yes, WSL exists but why not go bare metal?) but as a regular user from performance standpoint but to learn the pain of being a system administrator and DevOps engineer, especially in concepts such as Kubernetes infrastructure management, software packaging, and anything related to systemd.

Tools I use and my setup

• Laptop: HP Notebook N0K71EA#A2N with 4 x Intel Core i7-5500U CPU @ 2.40GHz, 8 GB of RAM and 1TB HDD, currently daily-driving Fedora Linux with KDE Plasma.⁶
• Phone: Infinix X6528B with Android 13, 8 GB of RAM, 248 GB of internal storage⁶ (256 GB total if adding 8 GB reserved as virtual RAM).
• Programming Languages: Node.js + Deno, Bash
• Editors: nano, VS Code (switching between stable and Insiders), Zed
• Cloud development environments as service: GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod
• Code forges: GitHub, GitLab on ~tulir's instance⁷, sourcehut, codeberg
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Secrets management tools: dotenvx, Doppler SecretOps platform

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1. While I am fine with anyone using person-first language (person with autism), I prefer identity-first language since neurodivergence is always part of human life and genome. See also this page in my user manual for more in depth guidance on language and disability. ↩︎

2. Obviously not a US LLC company, but we're sorting out the fiscal hosting related chores behind the scenes. More news soon once we're ready. ↩︎

3. See https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship for all things 501c3 US nonprofit fiscal sponsorship, although consider https://opencollective.com/opensource for 501c6 option for your open-source project. ↩︎

4. ~mikedmoy (also ~gildedguy): Michael Moy, also known in Hyun's Dojo Community as Gildedguy (the animator). See https://gildedguy.com/website-reborn for context behind his (old) domain. ↩︎

5. Quick trip to Vox.com article on this: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/9/30/22696338/pathologizing-adhd-autism-anxiety-internet-tiktok-twitter ↩︎

6. These are brought by my dad aboard and sent them back home as gift. ↩︎

7. ~tulir: Tulir Asokan (https://mau.fi) ↩︎