Hey there! I'm Joe L., an IB diploma student from Vancouver, Canada, and incoming CS undergrad @ UWaterloo.

If you're seeing this, you probably know me in real life (in which case, hello!) or from the YAGPDB project, where I'm an administrator and code contributor.

Nowadays, I primarily work with Rust and Go on backend projects, but in the past I've also dabbled in Python, TypeScript, Java, and C++, among others.

Occasionally, I blog on my website; check out my latest post on the relationship between pressure and chemical equilibrium.

Sadly, various real-life commitments mean I no longer have as much time to code as I would like. That said, my most recent project was markpdf, a command-line utility to efficiently edit PDF bookmarks, and I continue to sporadically contribute bugfixes and small features to the YAGPDB codebase.

In the past, I've worked on:

• vsHacks: A hackathon organized by my programming club and others across the Greater Vancouver area. Notably, I contributed extensively to the hackathon website and helped run workshops during the event.
• obscenity: A robust profanity detection library featuring extensive anti-bypass measures such as anti-zalgo and anti-lookalike Unicode characters for Node.js, written in TypeScript.
• liftoff: A parser and interpreter for a toy programming language, written in Python.
• spectre: General purpose Discord bot centered around a leveling system featuring dynamic image generation with a myriad of other commands, using PostgreSQL, Discord.js, and TypeScript.
• cp-practice: Solutions to various collections of programming problems, written in C++ and Java. See also my account on the DMOJ.
• yagpdb-cc: An extensive collection of custom commands for YAGPDB accessible via a Docusaurus-powered website.

Since everyone likes numbers:

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