Hi!! I'm jaysyrk, a 16 year old software dev. I have ADHD and bipolar 2. Because of how my brain runs, I code during intense hypomanic episodes where I'll just sit there and code for days on end. And because of the ADHD, my code has to be VERY organized with custom unicode dividers, em dashes, all that. I have them hardcoded into my keyboard Numpad.. If it isn't a perfect visual grid, my brain loses the thread and I can't survive as a dev.
Recently, I decided it was time to look toward my future, so I dumped multiple projects I've been working on since COVID onto Github, the main one being a custom logic engine and domain-specific language called Teleos DSL β by jaysyrk.
I posted it to a programming language community on Reddit, excited to finally show people what I built.
Instead, I got permanently banned and muted.
The mods told me that using Unicode dividers and writing 10,000 lines of incredibly clean code meant I was lying and using an LLM. I literally offered to hop on a call and break down the internal parsing logic line by line from memory. They didn't care. They just muted me so I couldn't even reply.
It sucked. BUT.. i have learned from this, i have created a background task in go that record my progress in my projects folder every 15 minutes so that if i accidentally don't upload to Github till the very end then I WILL STILL HAVE THE TIMLINE!!
Every 15 minutes, it checks if Iβve changed anything. If I have, it takes the 'git diff --stat' (which shows exactly how many lines I typed or deleted) and logs it.
But anyone can fake a regular text log. Sooooo... I used a hash chain. Every time it logs a new entry, it generates a SHA-256 hash by mixing the timestamp, the code changes, and the hash of the previous log entry.
It looks like this:
ββββ TRACKER AUDIT: 2026-05-22 16:45:00 βββ
β Prev-Hash: 4a8b9c2d
β Curr-Hash: f3e2d1c0
ββββ CHANGES DETECTED βββ
main.go | 42 ++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
βββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
Because every single 15-minute block is mathematically tied to the one before it, you cannot fake the timeline. If you try to go back and alter a single line or a timestamp from two days ago, the whole chain breaks. Itβs literal, unβfakable proof of work done by ME AND ME ONLY!
Weβre in a weird time in tech where if you write messy, chaotic code, you're a human, but if you maintain absolute crisp and clean architecture, people think you're a bot.
Iβm keeping my Unicode lines and em dashes. Iβm keeping my clean formatting. If the internet communities we have right now are too cynical to believe a teenager can write clean systems code, don't waste your energy begging them for an appeal. I just want to find a spot where I can get actual feedback and not get shut down for having code that's "too good to be true for a 16 year old".
