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Hey there! I'm Siddharth, aka Sid.

I'm a full-stack developer. Hobbyist. I got into coding when school life got too boring and I had too much extra time on my hands. Plus, my dad was also learning developement. He taught me HTML basics, then I learnt the rest of the stuff from the web.

That was 5 years ago. Now, I can say that I am extremely good at JavaScript. I also know the rest of the web technologies, TypeScript, some other stuff.

I don't really code any projects. Boy, I bet I haven't completed a single coding project in my life yet. I thrive in the soft spot between coding and learning and most of the time I quickly lose interest in projects once we get to the tedious parts.

I'm a backend guy. I love crunching numbers, running servers, minutely managing efficiency, golfing code, writing my own programming languages(!) and other complex work. I don't really care for aesthetic - I never did.

I've to add that I'm an absolute perfectionist. Sometimes I spend the whole day trying to make that one little syntax highlight perfect. I use Vim, and this leaves infinite room for customisation so this happens quite a lot.

About me, I'm a 8th grader (will be 9th in a few weeks!) in a remote little village in Kannur, Kerala, India. I also lived some (half) of my life abroad in Oman. For some reason everyone thinks I'm the smartest kid in class (I've denied that a million times :). I absolutely love origami (the art of paper folding) and reading. I also (try to) speedcube sometimes, and I can solve the 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, and the mirror cube. I'm also pretty handy with cardboard and paper. I love creating stuff.