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. Currently using the Fedora KDE Spin.


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'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

IDEs: VS Code, Jetbrains IDEs sometimes

Frameworks and tools: Tailwind CSS, some Typescript, NodeJS

Software

Firefox.

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

Fedora 40 KDE Spin!

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!

Change the website color theme

Thoughts

Publish your Plasma widget

May 15 2024

A quick tutorial that shows how publish a KDE widget on the widget store. More on KDE widgets coming soon hopefully!

The social issues with iMessage

Dec 1 2022

Didn't update this for the RCS announcement, but that'll take a while to come into effect and still won't change much socially in the U.S.

An argument against folding phones

Dec 1 2022

I mention the impracticalities in more words than strictly necessary.