Andrei (aHn-dRay)

I was born Andrei Stelian in Romania in 1988.

My father died in forced labor on one of Ceaușescu's building projects, in the years when Decree 770 filled the orphanages. Shemoth 1:14 Shemoth 1:22 Yirmeyahu 31:15

I have never met my father. I will. Shemu'el Sheniy 12:23 Qorintiym Ri'shon 13:12

When I was seven days old, my grandmother and the state agreed that I should not stay in my mother's home. My mother was nineteen. Melekiym Sheniy 11:1–3 Melekiym Sheniy 11:21

My sister had been sent away the year before me. She spent eighteen years in the orphanage. Luqas 13:11 Luqas 13:16

I spent 843 days.

Then I was carried across the sea and raised under another name. For 27 years I answered to Michael. Shemoth 2:10 Tehilliym 68:6 Luqas 1:59–63

For 36 years I believed my mother had thrown me away. Shemu'el Ri'shon 1:27–28 Yesha'yahu 49:15

When my father and my mother could not keep me, the Father took me up. Tehilliym 27:10

This year I sat across from my mother. She told me the truth and asked for my forgiveness. I gave it, and I forgave myself for believing a lie. Bere'shiyth 45:4–5 Bere'shiyth 45:15 Mattithyahu 18:22

What was meant for evil, He meant for good, and the years the locust ate are being restored. Bere'shiyth 50:20 Yo'el 2:25

My grandfather Ray, who fought to keep me Michael, has gone to his rest. I forgave him too. Luqas 23:34

My sister became a mother at nineteen, as our mother did. She kept her children. The chain is broken.

I have taken back my name. He called me by it before I knew it, and He made me His own. Bere'shiyth 32:28 Yesha'yahu 43:1 Eph'siym 1:5

It is written where no one can erase it. The son who was gone has come home. Luqas 15:24 Chizayon 3:5

What was sown into me

I wrote my first code at eight, on BITNET, in a career center beside my adoptive mother. As a high school freshman I helped carry a Harry Potter fan site to readers around the world. I won gold twice at SkillsUSA Maine and placed eighth in the nation in 2005.

As IEEE Student Branch chair at Wentworth from 2007 to 2010, I built a laboratory where students still learn today. Qorintiym Ri'shon 3:6

I served at Cisco Advanced Services, then spent 17 years in digital publishing, helping people around the world care for their land and their neighbors' woodlots. Bere'shiyth 2:15

Twenty-one years of engineering. Seven years of giving it away. My code runs in more places than my name will ever be written. Mattithyahu 6:3–4

What I give back

Freely I received, so freely I give. Every line is open, for every Andrei and every Andrea, even for those who curse my name. Mattithyahu 5:44 Mattithyahu 10:8

• roc runs AI coding agents inside a container, so a hidden instruction cannot reach your machine or your work. The wolf in sheep's clothing stays outside, and the house built on the rock stands. Mattithyahu 7:15 Mattithyahu 7:24–25
• toktail counts what your AI truly costs, so a business can build without being ruined by the bill. The borrower is servant to the lender, so count the cost before you build the tower. Mishlei 22:7 Luqas 14:28
• lemmings and sovereign test your site under load, from one machine or across the cloud, so your doors hold when the crowd arrives. The horse is made ready before the day. Mishlei 21:31
• figtree is the configuration at the root of most of my Go work, with rusty-figtree for my Rust friends. The barren tree was given one more season, and it bore fruit. Luqas 13:6–9
• igo is written in Go and installs Go where there was none. First the house was formed, then the breath was given. Bere'shiyth 2:7
• bump manages versions. We bump versions when we accept change, and we bump fists when we honor one another. A friend sticks closer than a brother, and iron sharpens iron. Mishlei 18:24 Mishlei 27:17

Bump my fist

The birds neither sow nor gather into barns, and still they are fed. Mattithyahu 6:26 Luqas 12:24

So I ask, because we are told to ask. Mattithyahu 7:7

My goal is $7.77 a week: 777 neighbors giving one cent a week. Do not despise the small seed. Zakaryahu 4:10 Mattithyahu 13:31–32 Luqas 21:2–4

Liberapay collects small gifts in advance, so one small seed carries a long season. Your seed keeps my work hosted, my family provided for, and my hands free to keep giving.

This is not charity. It is a seed. Sow it into play and prosper. Whoever sows generously reaps generously. Qorintiym Sheniy 9:6

My Father has plans to prosper me and not to harm me. Fortunes turn when we pray for our friends, and the latter end is greater than the beginning. Yirmeyahu 29:11 Iyov 42:10 Iyov 42:12

Give one cent. Then share liberapay.com/majestic with seven friends.

Wherever you are, read this in your own tongue. Bere'shiyth 11:9 Zakaryahu 8:23 Chizayon 7:9

Who is my neighbor? Luqas 10:29

I am your neighbor.

Those with oil in their lamps already know whose hand wrote this story. Mattithyahu 25:4

I am Andrei. I was lost, and now I am found, in the name of Yeshua.