hey, im zainul.

im not one of those kids who started coding in elementary school or hacked government servers for fun. back in madrasah aliyah, i was just in the graphic design track, messing with layouts and competing in geography olympiads. i spent way more time looking at maps, book covers, and neighborhood street typography than staring at code.

the whole tech thing started completely on a whim. back in high school, i randomly decided to install Linux on my laptop just to see what would happen. someone told me Linux was where the tech guys hung out. turned out it was this massive, rabbit hole of an operating system that broke every time i looked at it wrong, and i got completely addicted to exploring how it worked.

then for some reason, i decided to actually enroll in IT at FILKOM Universitas Brawijaya. right when tech winter was knocking on the front door, and everyone online was freaking out about AI taking all the jobs. you go to sleep for eight hours and wake up to a whole new model dropped overnight.

honestly, most days feel pretty flat. time just slips by way too fast and suddenly another semester is gone. learning tech right now is strange because the temptation to just feed everything to an AI is huge, especially when your fundamentals are still building. but i still have this stubborn urge to actually understand what the machine is doing underneath instead of just copying answers.

most mornings you will catch me shivering on a motorbike cutting through Malang morning traffic heading to campus, or sitting at some corner warkop late at night with a cheap cup of black coffee. still very much a newbie, but i wanted to build this little retro desktop so there is some real footprint left behind, even if it is not huge.

Things I Care About and Spend Time On

if you made it this far, thanks for reading. poke around the files on this little desktop, or hit me up if you ever find yourself in Malang and want to grab coffee.