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2description: Open-sourcerer Autistic from the Philippines
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6
7# Well hello there!
8
9[](https://github.com/antonkomarev/github-profile-views-counter)
10[](https://hackclub.com)
11[](https://lorebooks.wiki)
12
13
14
15I am **Andrei Jiroh Halili** (he/they), an Autistic[^1] Filipino currently full-time student at day,
16open-sourcerer[^4] at [Recap Time Squad] doing backend development in TypeScript across both
17Node.js and Deno runtimes and being a [(SA)BDFL][sabdfl-wiki] on in most of its projects, a [Hack Clubber]
18(joined on July 2024 during [Arcade][hc-arcade] and maintainer of [leeksbot] (companion Slack app for leeks channel), future
19alumni 2025) and Alpine Linux packager (currently maintaining [GitHub CLI] [in the aports]) at night.
20
21## What's cooking and quick links
22
23!!! info "Looking for all the links"
24 You do you: <https://links.andreijiroh.dev>
25
26* :telescope: I’m currently working on different projects, most of them are hosted under
27[Recap Time Squad] and some [Hack Club Slack community] projects, especially [the Alumni Society].
28* :seedling: I’m currently learning backend development in TypeScript at both
29Node.js and Deno runtimes, using Postgres + SQLite for database persistence,
30DevSecOps with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CI
31* :memo: I regularly write articles on [Ghost](https://blog.andreijiroh.dev), alongside post my progress
32and behind the scenes updates on [Hack Club Scrapbook](https://scrapbook.hackclub.com/ajhalili2006)
33* :mailbox: Want to contact me? [Go here for all the details.](./contact/index.md) Best way is via
34[email](./contact/details.md#email), although expect a response within days or
35weeks, depending on my availability and how cluttered my inbox is.
36
37## More about myself
38
39* Started in my journey as a backend dev since 2018 via Glitch dot com (RIP).
40* While my early autism diagnosis helped me through speech therapy, I am still
41between masking/suffering in silence while being neurodivergent in real life.
42* A multifandom goober/chronically online person
43
44## Tools I use and my setup
45
46* **Laptop**: HP Notebook N0K71EA#A2N with 4 x Intel Core i7-5500U CPU @ 2.40GHz,
478 GB of RAM and 1TB internal HDD, currently daily-driving NixOS unstable.
48* **Raspberry Pis**:
49 * Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1 with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of SD card for
50 Raspberry Pi OS + Debian 12 Bookworm, both received from one of Hack Club's YSWS programs.
51* **Phone**: Infinix X6528B[^3] with Android 13, 8 GB of RAM, 248 GB of internal storage (256 GB total if adding
528 GB reserved as virtual RAM).
53* **Programming Languages**: TypeScript via [Node.js](https://nodejs.org) + [Deno](https://deno.land), Bash
54* **Editors**: mostly nano and [VS Code](https://vscode.dev) (switching between stable and Insiders), sometimes [Zed](https://zed.dev/)
55* **Cloud development environments as service**: [GitHub Codespaces](https://github.com/features/codespaces), [Gitpod](https://www.gitpod.io)
56* **Code forges**: Mainly [GitHub] and [GitLab SaaS][saas], also mirrors to
57[~tulir's GitLab instance][mau.dev][^2], [sourcehut], [codeberg]
58* **CI/CD**: [GitHub Actions](https://github.com/features/actions) and [GitLab CI]
59* **Secrets management tools**: [dotenvx] for Git-based setup but encrypted, [Doppler SecretOps platform] for file-less remote configs
60and [1Password] (mostly via [their open-source teams plan][op-oss-plan])
61
62## The boring stats
63
64Free free to skip this if you are not keen on looking at stats.
65
66### GitHub Activity stats
67
68[](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats)
69
70## Hackatime / WakaTime
71
72[](https://hackatime.hackclub.com)
73
74<!-- links -->
75[Recap Time Squad]: https://recaptime.dev
76[Hack Club Slack community]: https://hackclub.com/slack
77[the Alumni Society]: https://alumni.hackclub.community
78[hc-arcade]: https://hackclub.com/arcade
79[Hack Clubber]: https://hackclub.com
80[leeksbot]: https://gitlab.com/recaptime-dev/hackclub-leeksbot
81[GitHub CLI]: https://cli.github.com
82[in the aports]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports
83[mau.dev]: https://mau.dev/ajhalili2006
84[saas]: https://gitlab.com/ajhalili2006
85[sabdfl-wiki]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.dev/kooky-insane-stuff/vocabulary/sabdfl/
86[GitHub]: https://github.com/ajhlili2006
87[sourcehut]: https://sr.ht/~ajhalili2006
88[Doppler SecretOps platform]: https://www.doppler.com
89[1Password]: https://www.1password.com
90[op-oss-plan]: https://github.com/1Password/for-open-source
91[dotenvx]: https://github.com/dotenvx/dotenvx
92
93<!-- footnotes -->
94[^1]: I use identity first language instead of medical/person first language in context of my disability and neurodivergence.
95but will adjust accordingly to other disabled/neurodivergent people's preferences as needed.
96[^2]: `~tulir`: Tulir Asokan (<https://mau.fi>)
97[^3]: These are brought by my dad aboard and sent them back home as gift.
98[^4]: I mean open-source developer and maintainer myself for the uninitialized