heya, i'm juniper and this is my site!

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i'm a hs student interested in drones, *nix systems, fountain pens, history, and philosophy. currently on the college admissions grind + working towards a part 107 license and some research projects

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  • age: 16
  • bday: march 03
  • location: ur mom's bedroom TEXASSSS
  • mbti: infp-t
  • fav color: purple/red
  • languages: english + mandarin (native) + esperanto (c1) + dutch (b2)
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  • authentic ppl
  • ppl who hand write things
  • modesty
  • going outside and being active
  • WHATABURGERRRRR
  • DR PEPPERRRRRRRRRR
  • texas bbq
  • ppl who drive stick
  • dangerous weather

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  • basic dni stuff
  • spams shortform content
  • ppl who have emotional relationships with llms
  • attention seekers
  • whiny ppl
  • ppl who make other ppl do things they themselves should've done
  • ppl who are mean to service workers
  • ppl on diets (ie. vegan) and are obnoxious about it
  • ppl who drive massive trucks/suvs as family vehicles
  • austin ai/nft/crypto techbros
  • music artists: ado, atarashii gakko, cynthoni, death, gy!be, acid bath, mcr, zutomayo, kairikibear, purity filter, vertigoaway
  • books: anna karenina, notes from underground, no longer human, the woman in black
  • manga/anime series: the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya, girls' last tour, azumanga daioh, ouran high school host club, evangelion
  • games: hearts of iron iv, europa universalis iv, beamng.drive, neon white, geometry dash, honkai star rail

now i shall plug all my fav stuff that i use if u wanna be like me:

i use arch for my desktop + cachyos (same thing anyways bweh) for my laptop. my phone runs grapheneos & u should use it too! desktopwise i use hyprland with waybar on both my laptop and desktop. for my most oft used software, i use qutebrowser, claws mail, heroic games launcher, and qownnotes (what i use to write blog posts). i use kitty with fish shell. for programming and making this website i use vscodium with vim keybinds; my general text editor is neovim.

if i have anything to really recommend specifically, it'd have to be these. give them a try, i love them!

  • - qutebrowser which is a minimalist browser that uses vim keybindings + is really fast
  • - nnn which is a minimalist file manager. i used to use midnight commander which is also great but nnn is so much quicker to use imo and it has all you need.
  • - foliate which is imo the goat of linux e-readers

my config files aren't that great but if you wanna see them they're on github at alexbraadworst/blood-river, there's no helper scripts or anything. maybe they'll be good to start with. i usually use a gruvbox dark color palette but i used to use dracula which you can see in my older configs for sway and stuff.

can u tell i waste all my income

desktop

i built my pc in february 2023 and i've upgraded a few times since then. total was ~US$1100 for the pc if you just include the current parts when i bought them. obviously for reasons, that has increased quite a bit....

  • - cpu: ryzen 7 5700x
  • - cpu cooler: deepcool ak400
  • - motherboard: msi pro b550m-vc
  • - ram: corsair vengeance lpx 3200mhz cl16, 2x16gb (32gb)
  • - gpu: radeon rx 6650xt
  • - storage: 1tb samsung 970 evo plus, 1 tb crucial mx500, 6tb wd black hdd

peripherals:

  • - samson sr850 headphones
  • - shure sm58 mic
  • - focusrite scarlett solo 3rd gen
  • - some acer nitro 1440p@180hz monitor + a dell 1080p@60 monitor
  • - corsair dark core rgb pro mouse
  • - leobog hi75 with sparkle (hsr) pbt keycaps and kinetic labs hx latte switches

laptop + phone etc

as of writing (2026/06/02) i JUST replaced my old thinkpad t460 with a super nice thinkpad p14s g5 with a core ultra 7 155h, rtx 500 ada graphics, 32gb ram and a 2tb nvme ssd. it's insanely fast...

as for my phone it's a pixel 8 running grapheneos. i also use a garmin forerunner 735xt watch and kz edx pro iems whenever i go out. usually my headphones are either my iems or my sennheiser hd450se but when i run i use these shokz bone conduction headphones, they sound horrendous but it's lwk cool asl and i don't get run over so...

i mentioned i like fountain pens, so here's my most favorite& commonly used ones + what they're inked with as of 2026/06/02:

  • - pilot vanishing point, matte black, ef (pilot iroshizuku syun-gyo)
  • - wing sung 601, clear, ef (noodler's x-feather) (daily driver for school)
  • - kaweco sport, bordeaux, f (diamine writer's blood)
  • - twsbi diamond 580 alr, f (diamine writer's blood)
  • - fpr darjeeling crystal edition, black, ef ultraflex (j. herbin emeraude de chivor)

paperwise i mostly use these kokuyo b5 binder notebooks with their sarasara paper cuz i'm in hs and it's really convenient to reorganize paper and reuse between years, i carry 5 of these for all my subjects + a random 1 inch binder. b5 is my absolute favorite paper size and i wish more people used it! 6mm lined rule is my personal favorite but I also use graph for math.

other stationery items: i use gel highlighters (usually sold as bible highlighters) because they don't smudge, i just use whatever brand. my pencil is a tombow mono graph 0.5mm, i personally find the shaker useless but it feels nice in my hand so i js use it anyways... my pencil case is a random one i bought in china, it's fine enough ig