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Welcome to my now page where I log what's been cooking behind the scenes lately. (sneak to my nownownow entry for this page) for some tidbits)

Last updated (PHT): 2026-01-09 from Marilao, Bulacan, PH

December 2025

It's Wrapped season! Check back here for the long-form blog post soon (but you can have a peek in this album for spoilers).

  • TBD

Listening on loop

Visit my Top Songs 2025 playlist here for Spotify Wrapped and this one for YouTube Music, but just this month here's what been vibing on loop for the month of December:

  • TBD

What's Cooking

Other than shipping the

October-November 2025

Listening on loop

There's a always-updating playlist of what's on the daily rotation on both Spotify and YouTube with weekly updates. Here's a rundown of what's on the loop in the last October and November according to Last.fm.

  • F.O.O.L - Overdrive
  • caspro - Thunder Drive
  • fur:trash - PUPLIFE
  • fur:trash - unabomber arc
  • F.O.O.L - Damage
  • F.O.O.L - The Future
  • F.O.O.L - Drifter
  • caspro - Stranger Things (remix)
  • MUST DIE! - LIFE SUCK
  • caspro - Spooky Scary Skeletons (remix)

School

Hack Club Community / Alumni Society

  • Launched [a community Tangled Knot server][knots], running on Nest
  • Set up GitLab.com namespace for the Hack Club Community + Alumni Society projects under GitLab for Open-source Program
  • First subdomain user under the hackclub.community domain

May 2025

Listening on Loop

Note from @ajhalili2006 as of 2025-11-03

Forgot to list what's on the loop at that period and might be busy lately, gonna check the stats later

PH Politics

Recently voted at the 2025 mid-terms elections for the first time after my first elections for Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections in 2023. Imagine you want to do a marathon of ABS-CBN News' Halalan 2025 coverage after the election week.

February 2025

Listening on Loop

Here are the songs I listen on loop for the month of February 2025:

  • Royal Blood - Tell Me When It's Too Late
  • Koven - Industrial Strain
  • Nitro Fun - POWER

Recap Time Squad and friends

At Recap Time Squad side of the things, we moved recaptime.dev and other domains back to Cloudflare Registrar (with my High Seas HCB credits) from Porkbun and used

Hack Club

Grinded 148 hours of coding (mostly backend dev and literally writing Markdown content) during High Seas, and here's what I ordered in the wind down periods (aka before the shop closes):

  • USD 280 on Porkbun + Cloudflare HCB credits
    • USD 20 for recaptime.dev (USD 25.78)
  • a lot of piles of stickers (hopefully it does not get lost on mail)
  • Raspberry Pi 5 for dedicated homelab server setup at home
  • Another YubiKey 5C NFC because I lost the first one from Arcade (RIP)

School

You know it as the leader of your research team at Pratical Research 2 (PR 2) / Inquiries, Investigations, and Immersion (3I / I.I.I) subject, you are always cooked between working on different aspects, keeping team morale and recordkeeping for documentation and grading purposes.

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Please be reminded that content on WordPress.com will be archived or in private mode as I moved blog content to Ghost (previously Substack) and anything else into this website.