👋 Hi, I'm Aiden

he/him/kitty AY-den

I'm a -year-old full stack developer, linux enthusiast, sysadmin, and furry based in San Francisco, California, USA. I am also a member of the wonderful community known as Hack Club, an amazing home for teen nerds like me. As far as programming I'm mostly self-taught, through reading and Stack Overflow. I'm also a huge fan of cryptography, and digital privacy. There's something innately powerful about being able to send information as a perfect secret. I currently attend Lowell High School, and am a member of their robotics team 4159 CardinalBotics. I got my amateur radio license in summer 2024, and enjoy operating whenever I'm out and about. I've always loved to read, and even though I don't have much time anymore, it's still one of my passions. My favorite series is the OG Percy Jackson books, by Rick Riordan, which incidentally is also the source of the username many of you know me by. In second place is the Spy School series by Stuart Gibbs, tied with the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. My preffered music genre is elctronic, especially EDM, and I'm a huge fan of Alan Walker, K-391, cyberhound and ivycomb. When I need a break from coding, I play a lot of Call of Duty: Mobile, Valorant and War Thunder. Feel free to DM me on the HC slack, or discord :3

I participated in Advent of Code 2024. See my solutions here.
My opinions on your favorite languages and distros:
S Python, C, C++
A HTML, CSS, JS, Bash
B Rust
C
F Java, Scratch
S NixOS, Arch Linux, Android
A Debian, iOS, MacOS
B Windows
C
F Barked Android