Currently cooking now
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): 2025-10-27 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).
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:
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.
- TBD
School
Hack Club Community / Alumni Society
- Launched a community Tangled Knot server, 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.communitydomain
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 (last.fm scrobbling data)
- Koven - Industrial Strain (last.dm scrobbling data)
- Nitro Fun - POWER (last.fm scrobbling data)
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)
- USD 20 for
- 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.
Web/Commit Archives
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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.
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- July 2022 update via Internet Archive Wayback Machine