Happy New Year!
I joined a while ago, but haven’t had a chance to introduce myself till now.
My name is Andy Maleh. I’m a Canadian from Montreal born in the 80’s, of a Syrian origin. I lived in Chicago for over 10 years, but my current home is Montreal. I am an anglophone Quebecois (studied Computer Science at McGill University). I got a *** LAUDE Master’s in Software Engineering from DePaul University, Chicago. I’ve worked for big tech corps like Groupon and Lightspeed. I spend most of my own time working on open source software projects (just like Linus Torvalds did when he created Linux). My main current project right now among many is Glimmer (
https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer)
I was invited to Lutheranism about 14 years ago. I heeded the call only 4 years ago. Now that I am a conservative born again LCMS Evangelical Lutheran, I put God first in my life (I was mostly non religious before and dabbled a bit with Buddhism till I realized people at its top were very unethical). So, I avoid all attachments to modern godless living and only use computers as a hobby/profession, not as a dependency. I train myself sometimes to avoid computers for a while. I also intentionally abstain from accepting jobs at unethical companies (something I wish a lot more people do instead of compromising God’s morals and conceding to falsely-agreed-upon-and-made “reality”). As such, I live a very poor minimal life, and I prefer it over my previous lavish lifestyle working for unethical big tech corps that supported unchristian values hurting many people.
Otherwise, my hobbies are drumkit drumming, longboarding, snowboarding, and baseball (Go Cubs!).
Thank you for listening and Godspeed.
Andy Maleh
P.S. I get followed by trolls on some websites sent to follow me by godless people who don’t like that I proclaim Jesus Christ everywhere nowadays. If that happens here, please ignore them and do not respond to them no matter what. You’ll recognize them from their profanities, godlessness, or homosexual attitude easily. Do not evangelize to them. They are all blasphemers against the Holy Spirit and reprobates beyond all hope. Save your energy for people who could truly benefit from evangelism instead. Thanks for your understanding.
This post was edited by
Andy Maleh at June 14, 2022 11:39 AM EDT