I'm Hamza Nasher-Alneam

A second-generation Syrian immigrant with an interest in computers

About me

I'm a high school student in the United States. When I have time, I like to do programming, which has been mostly full stack web dev. Now, I'm trying out a different languages and tools. Fedora KDE btw.

Work

As mentioned above, I've been just experimenting around recently, working on a bunch of small projects in Python, GDscript, Java, and Kotlin, until I find something good enough to stick with. If you want to see whatever project I'm working on this week, it'll be up on my GitHub. Right now, I'm working on a bunch of cool projects for Hack Club Arcade

Recently, I've been working on setting up a server, an old desktop from around 2010. It's running Opensuse Tumbleweed, because I decided a rolling release is a good choice for a server. Now I'm trying to self-host everything, from photo backup with Immich to file backup with Rysnc, along with a shelf-hosted Gitea instance. The website is on is hnasheralneam.onthewifi.com, but the server is off right now and I probably won't remember to update this when it's on again

Other work

Another small tool I made is Activity Log, which is meant to be used for tracking time. It's a cool project, with decent design and charts and everything. I'm trying to make it an Android app.

Recently, a friend and I made a developer profile tool for a hackathon project; here it is. Right now it only fetches data from GitHub.

Tools

Languages: JavaScript, Python

Code editors: Zed, VS Code

Frameworks and tools: Tailwind CSS, some Typescript, NodeJS

Software

Firefox, Linux, KDE

Keyboard layouts are programmer's dvorak (~100wpm) and arabic 101 (~15wpm).

Opinions

I use Python, sometimes, when I can't avoid it.

The type checking in Java is actually really nice.

I ❤️ open source

Achievements

Urdons and I won first place and the technical award at the MAGIC STEP Challenge! Here is our project and presentation. February 24 2024

Our school robotics team got into the VEX state championship! The current game is Over Under. February 11 2024

Justin and I won third place at the MAGIC cybersecurity CTF! Here are the results. April 20 2023

Fun stuff

Developer jokes!