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Hey there! I'm
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My home base for telling the world about myself, my projects, and where to find
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TransGamers BlahajBot

A Discord bot I solo develop for the TransGamers Discord community packed full
of moderation and access control tools. The code is private.

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Discord ChatGPT v2

A Discord bot that allows users to interact with OpenAI's GPT large language
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CyberFiles Lite

A (not so) bare-bones file index built to work with Node.js Express and look
like GitHub's file browser, complete with file previews and more!

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I keep this page updated with just the projects I'm actively maintaining or am
especially proud of. There's tons more published on my GitHub!

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Kayla 21
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AKA: Cybah, CyberOfficial, CyberGen49
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I write code and vibe!
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Studying Computer Science
University of Houston Class of 2025
Jan 2 2003 • The beginning

From birth, I was mesmerized by screens. My parents would put on TV programs for
me and I would watch the music visualizer in iTunes on the computer. The bright
colors of both had me captivated.

2008 • Introduction to photography

My dad gave me his old 2001 Sony CyberShot digital camera to play with, which
kickstarted my interest in photography. I spent a lot of time taking pictures of
literally anything. Having not figured out the video functionality, I made
pseudo-stop motion animations with Lego and played them back by using the arrow
keys.

He also showed me how to transfer images from the camera to the computer, which
I did a lot. This was my introduction to using the computer by myself, but I
only used it for this purpose.

2009 • More computer usage

As I got more comfortable using the computer to transfer images off of my
camera, I spent more time using it. I spent a lot of time playing with Microsoft
Word and Paint, having fun with the spray can tool in Paint and making funny
word art in Word.

Online flash games on Coolmath also became a regular activity for me, to the
point where I would wake up before school to play newly added games.

2011 • Camera upgrade!

My grandma had a newer Sony CyberShot camera that she wasn't using, so she gave
it to me. This one was able to store a lot more data and was able to shoot
video, so I upped my game! I was still fascinated by simply taking pictures of
things.

Jan 3 2014 • Another camera upgrade!!

Still passionate about photography, I used Christmas/birthday money to buy a
newer Samsung digital camera. It was still a basic point-and-shoot, but it was a
lot better than my old Sony cameras. I started taking even more pictures!

Apr 2014 • Featured photo!

I took a black and white picture of our dog with my new camera and submitted it
to our local library's photography showcase. They liked it enough to have it
framed in the library's front display case!

Jun 2014 • Minecraft

As a reward for finishing my 5th grade year, my parents bought me Minecraft on
PC, since I mentioned that some of my friends were talking about it. This
launched me into a full-blown obsession, where I spent every ounce of free time
playing.

Our family has never had any game consoles, so Minecraft was the first "real"
game for me to experience - and it was amazing!

This also directed my interests much more toward computers, since Minecraft
encourages more in-depth computer usage when it comes to modding, making
resourcepacks, and more.

Minecraft was also my introduction to YouTube, where I would regularly watch
channels like Stampy, PopularMMOs, and more.

Jan 2 2015 • I got a phone!

For my 12th birthday, I got an iPhone 6 Plus, which was very exciting! This made
taking pictures of everything I found interesting so much easier!

Feb 2015 • My own computer!

Up until this point, I had been playing Minecraft and otherwise messing around
with our old eMachines desktop, which was very slow.

My dad upgraded his personal computer, so I was able to take his old one: a
Toshiba Satellite from Best Buy. It wasn't powerful by any means, but it was
still a massive upgrade.

While this gave me even more chances to play Minecraft, it also allowed me to
dive into things like Windows customization with visual styles. I loved making
my computer look exactly how I wanted, even if it meant breaking and having to
reinstall Windows many times over.

The troubleshooting surrounding my customization breaking the operating system
taught me a lot about fixing software issues, handling OS reinstalls, and more.

Jul 2015 • Introduction to programming

I went to a week-long day camp at the University of Houston that taught the
basics of Java programming. Over the week, we developed our own text-based
adventure games. I learned essential programming concepts like control
structures and variables that would stick with me forever.

Jun 2016 • A new laptop!

My mom's laptop, a newer and more powerful Toshiba Satellite, got infected with
malware, so we bought her a new laptop and I took the old one. I cleaned it up
enough to replace my old Satellite with it.

Jul 2016 • Minecraft server hosting

My parents got me a book on how to develop Minecraft server plugins. I started
reading through it, and the first step taught me how to set up a server. I
followed along and got one running, and was excited to have just gotten that
far! I took this as the chance to start my server hosting journey and didn't
read any more of the book.

Soon after, and after figuring out the networking side of things with port
forwarding, I published my first server: a small PvP server run entirely with
command blocks. Sadly, it didn't last long as my systems weren't versatile
enough and players didn't stay engaged.

Dec 11 2016 • SimpleCyberSurvival

After learning a bit more about server hosting and plugins, I put together my
next public server: a basic survival server. This server stayed up for longer (7
months) and was much more popular than the last. It also let me meet people who
are still in my core friend group to this day!

As I continued experimenting with server hosting, I was introduced to Linux and
how much better it is for this purpose. I set up my older Satellite laptop as
the server PC and hosted from there, which let me keep my servers running 24/7.

Jan 2017 • I bought a laptop!

Unsatisfied with the performance of the two laptops I had, I decided to buy
myself a laptop with dedicated graphics and ended up with an ASUS Vivobook Flip.
Not only did this mean I finally had a computer that "just worked," but I was
able to dedicate the newer Satellite to server hosting.

Oct 2017 • I got a powerful PC

My dad, who noticed how much I was "gaming" (still just Minecraft) and who
needed a reliable system to keep business data backups on, bought me a powerful
desktop PC, equipped with a GTX 1080 and i7-6700k. This was truly a massive
upgrade, and allowed me to play Minecraft with shaders full-time - which was
always a dream of mine!

Embarrassingly, this was less than a year after I had spent my own money on a
computer. I felt bad about it, but the laptop would become my travel PC for a
while before devoting its life to server hosting.

Jan 1 2018 • Phone upgrade!

For my 15th birthday, I made the jump to Android and got the Pixel 2 XL,
specifically because of its reputation as the best smartphone camera of the
time. I was ready to upgrade my photo game, and this certainly did it!

At this point, I started posting pictures of places on Google Maps, which
amassed millions of views over time.

Jan 2018 • The Mechanical Union

In collaboration with one of the teachers I knew best, we started a robotics
club at our high school. This meant weekly or bi-weekly meetings where we would
work on projects, learn about robotics, and prepare for competitions.

In practice, however, progress was very slow and we never actually competed. The
club was more of a social gathering for my close friends than anything as the
aforementioned teacher didn't do much in the way of pushing us towards success.

The club and its meetings would stick around until the pandemic hit, at which
point everything was boxed up and forgotten.

Apr 2018 • The SimpleCyber Network

Ready to pick up public server hosting again after a several-month hiatus, I put
together a website (with Google Sites) and brand name for my servers:
SimpleCyber Network. Following this, I published the next SimpleCyberSurvival
server, but it sadly didn't last long.

Jun 2019 • SimpleCyberSurvival 3

Still itching to have a successful public Minecraft server, I put together SCS
3, which was more equipped plugin-wise than any of my previous servers.

Lucky for me, the resurgence of Minecraft's popularity at this time made the
effort worth it, and the server saw over a dozen players on at once. While still
not huge, it was the best I had ever done.

I made even more friends on this server, making up the other half of my current
friend group.

Aug 2019 • Rainmeter

Up until this point, the only way I was able to design user interfaces was with
Google Slides or Google Drawings. I was itching to be able to develop UIs that
were actually functional and interactive.

I had been using Rainmeter, a desktop customization tool, for a while, so I
decided to dive in and learn how to make my own skins.

Developing for Rainmeter gave me a taste of real UI development, and I was
hooked! I made skin after skin, even publishing some on DeviantArt and Reddit to
much success. People loved my minimalistic designs!

Feb 2020 • SpotiPlayer

I released my most successful Rainmeter skin, called SpotiPlayer, which was a
replica of the Spotify mobile app UI that allowed you to control music playing
on your PC. It was a massive hit with the community!

Sadly, I was getting burnt out on Rainmeter development, so this was the last
big project I would release.

Feb 2020 • Quarantine with friends!

All of my public servers had been shut down due to inactivity, but the friends I
made through them were still all in one place. One of them proposed that we host
a private server just for us, so that's what we did!

Quarantine hit shortly after starting, which left us all with an abundance of
free time. This meant that the server was very active, and we all had a blast!
No time has been able to compare to this bliss.

Aug 2020 • Web development

I had been interested in web development for several months, but could never
really get into it. Video tutorials were hard to follow, and I didn't have any
ideas to motivate me to learn.

I heard about a self-hostable file index called h5ai, and decided to boot it up
on my server PC. I loved being able to host my own files to be accessible over
the internet, and I wanted to customize the interface to my liking.

I dug into h5ai's CSS and made all the changes I could, which got me hooked. I
was finally able to truly make a UI that was functional and interactive, and I
loved it! This finally had the motivation to learn all the CSS, HTML,
Javascript, and PHP that I could so I could make my own websites too!

Apr 2021 • osu!

One of my friends had started playing osu!, a rhythm game where you click
circles to the beat of music. He introduced it to me and I was hooked. I've
always loved music, and being able to tap along to it and look super cool in the
process felt amazing!

This game would consume most of the rest of my year and most of the next.

Nov 2021 • Gender

I told two of my closest friends, who were both out to me as trans, that I was
questioning my gender identity and had been for years. Gender dysphoria had been
occupying an increasing amount of my thoughts, but there was a lot more thinking
that needed to go into things before I could come to any conclusions.

This would mark the beginning of my journey.

Mar 2022 • Node.js

Having gotten pretty confident with my Javascript skills, I decided to finally
ditch PHP as my backend scripting language and move over to Node.js. Node gave
me the chance to use more complex things like websockets, and made it a lot
easier to use libraries, APIs, and other resources.

Node also allowed me to move away from Apache and build my own super versatile
web servers that met the needs of my websites perfectly!

Apr 2022 • Gender (part 2)

Having spent lots of time talking with my friends about my gender identity, I
finally mustered up the courage to tell my parents the same thing I told my
friends back in November. They received it well, but didn't have much to offer
as I was still very unsure of myself. The key was to continue building my
support system.

Jul 2022 • Gender (part 3)

Continuing my dive deep into myself, I wanted more people to know about how I
was feeling and how I wanted to present. I came out to my whole friend group as
non-binary and asked them to start using they/them pronouns for me, which they
did in a heartbeat!

I would spend the next several months thinking very deeply into myself and what
I wanted, and started to formulate some sense of certainty.

Sep 2022 • Discord bot development

Now that I was comfortable with Node.js, I wanted to tackle Discord bots. In the
past, I made lots of use of Discord webhooks to periodically send messages in my
servers, but I wanted to make interactive experiences using commands, buttons,
modals, and more!

After learning the Discord.js library, I dove in and started building!

Dec 2022 • "I think I'm trans"

Thoughts about my gender identity had become very prominent and gender dysphoria
led me to spend chunks of time just laying low not doing much, drowning in
thoughts of what I wanted but couldn't have.

Having come to some amount of a conclusion, I told my parents that I thought I
was trans and that I wanted to start doing something about it. They listened,
but because I still wasn't totally sure of anything, all we could do was talk
through things for the time being.

Apr 2023 • Minecraft Spigot server plugins

Despite spending two years of school learning Java, I was very hesitant to
actually develop with it. As my friend group was talking about starting another
public Minecraft server, I decided it was finally time for me to bite the bullet
and dive into plugin development.

After setting up my environment with VSCode, I came to the realization that Java
isn't so bad! With the help of Spigot's documentation, I was able to pick up
Spigot development quickly and finally start making custom plugins for my
servers!

May 2023 • My name is Kayla, and I'm a girl!

I had finally become pretty certain of my gender identity and what I wanted, and
I was sick of being in denial, so I decided it was finally time to embrace being
trans! What followed was a transformation of my online profiles to a new look
and having my friends and family start using my new name, Kayla, and she/her
pronouns to refer to me.

I still had a long way to go before I could feel like my authentic self, but I
was finally on the right track, and I had built a good support system to fall
back on should I need help!

Dec 14 2023 • Fem&ms

After waiting for 6 months to get an appointment with a gender specialist to
discuss my discoveries and hopefully start my medical transition, I was
prescribed a series of medications to help feminize my body, those being
estradiol, spironolactone, and progesterone.

This had been a long time coming for me and I had already been thinking about
starting hormone replacement since I originally came out a year ago, so I was
very excited to finally make it happen!

Feb 16 2024 • Moving out

As I continued to explore myself and my identity, I felt a growing need to go
out, meet people, and have new experiences. Living at home in a sleepy suburb
made this difficult, and my parents are very private people, so we decided it
was finally time for me to move out on my own.

I ended up in an apartment in the heart of Downtown Houston, where I'm close to
everything I need, making getting groceries and commuting to school a breeze. As
I was imagining, I can see people with a lot less effort and explore myself
more, which is a big win.

Sep 3 2024 • Today

Who's to say what the future holds?

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