A living profile / 01
boink
Building things, breaking things, and figuring out how they work.
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boink
@boink_2068
- Node.js
- Next.js
- React
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- C
- C++
- C#
- HTML
- CSS
- Python
- Flask
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- Redis
- REST APIs
- Linux
- Git
- GitHub
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- AWS
- EC2
- Vercel
- Railway
- Render
- GitHub Actions
- Playwright
- Discord
- Ollama
- OpenRouter
- AI
- AI Agents
- Cryptography
01 / About
A little context.
I build websites, bots, and backend systems, and I take things apart to find out how they work. If something can be automated, rebuilt, or made faster, I'm usually already halfway into it. Most of what I know came from breaking something first and reading the error message after.
I treat AI as a tool rather than a shortcut — models get benchmarked, coding agents get tested, and I keep track of what actually costs time and money to run. The rest of it goes into Linux installs I didn't need, hardware that should have been retired years ago, games running on machines that were never meant for them, and Discord servers full of people building stranger things than I am.
- Focus
- Web apps, bots, and automation
- Approach
- Build it, break it, fix it properly
- Found at
- Mostly around Discord
02 / The Vibe
One file, two readings.
A short JSON file describing how I work — energy, personality, interests, likes, dislikes, aesthetic. It's written by me, not measured by anything. Press Compile and the same data comes back in plain English.
Source
{"energy": "late-night / high-focus / always experimenting","personality": ["curious","detail-obsessed","productively chaotic","persistent"],"interests": ["coding","AI","automation","Discord","gaming","Linux","hardware","web systems","internet culture"],"likes": ["clean interfaces","fast systems","useful automation","clever solutions","low resource usage","weird experiments"],"dislikes": ["unnecessary complexity","bloated software","slow tooling","repetitive work","generic design","simple things made difficult"],"aesthetic": "dark / futuristic / minimal / technical / cinematic","currently": "tracked in the Currently section below"}interpret personality.json
Output
Nothing compiled yet
Press run to read this file in plain English.
Compiler ready.
03 / Habits
Things I keep doing.
Nobody assigned me these. They just keep happening — usually late at night, usually because one thing annoyed me or looked interesting. Less a skill list, more a log of what I actually spend time on.
Build — Websites, tools, bots, and ideas that became real.
If it can be built, automated, or wired into a backend, it's already on my list. Most projects start as “I wonder if this could work” and end as systems people actually use. Motive: curiosity
Break — Poking systems until they show how they work.
Experimenting, debugging, changing things to see what happens — then fixing what I broke while learning exactly why it broke. Casualties: several setups
Experiment — Always testing the next model, agent, or stack.
New AI models, coding agents, frameworks, APIs, workflows — everything gets tried, compared, and judged on speed versus quality. The hunt for the setup that just gets it never really ends. Currently: probably benchmarking something
Optimize — Less CPU, less RAM, fewer tokens, less waiting.
Cutting latency, complexity, and resource usage wherever it hides. If something is slow, bloated, or doing work nobody asked for, it gets fixed or replaced. Philosophy: less, but faster
Automate — Repetitive work becomes a script. Always.
Tasks done twice turn into scripts, bots, and workflows. Boring work is a bug, and automation is the patch. Manual labor: declined
Play — Games on hardware that has to try harder.
Gaming and experimenting — single-player rabbit holes, settings pushed until something gives, old machines punching above their weight. Graphics: whatever runs
Lurk — Around Discord, internet culture, and rabbit holes.
Hanging out in communities, following interesting projects, falling into technical rabbit holes. Mostly quiet, occasionally emerging with something useful. Status: present, mostly quiet
The loop. It has no exit condition.
Status: still experimenting
04 / Currently
What I'm doing right now.
Nothing here is permanent. This is a snapshot of the current rotation — projects, rabbit holes, and open loops. It will be outdated by the time you finish reading it, and that's the point.
This website — turning a Discord identity into a place on the internet.
State // Active
- ExperimentingNew AI models and coding agents — same benchmark gauntlet, new contenders.
- PlayingSomething from the backlog, on hardware doing its best.
- LearningWhere the real latency in my setup actually lives.
- Thinking aboutWhether this site needs another section, or fewer.
- Obsessed withShaving seconds off things nobody else times.
Current thought // Why does this need to exist? Follow-up: why not?
05 / The End
05 / The End
You found me.
That's enough context. Still building.
Random thought, Thought 1 of 13:“This started as a five-minute idea.”
End of current session