Hello {every,no-}one,
Writing the first entry for every blog is much more difficult than I first thought (having to rewrite this first sentence for the tenth time proves this to me). With an audience consisting of literally just one person, yourself, it’s a bit like shouting into the void. Whilst it can clear your head, allowing you to put your thoughts in order, the notice of nobody hearing what you said makes it a bit sad. I want to inform the world of subjects I find interesting, related to anything computers and/or activism. I’d like to write short tutorials, informing the readers with my (of course very important and world changing) thoughts and have a big impact on the industry. This will be the most informative blog the internet has ever seen, if I ever get around of publishing my first real entry and stop rewriting there ramblings for the nth time.
The most fitting subject I could come up with is the tool I’m using to publish this blog. I know, this is a pretty sad first subject for a blog with the big ambitions I have. But with me not knowing it existed until a few days ago and finding it pretty impressive already, I’d like to give it a shoutout, albeit into the void for now, and probably forever…
A little bit of a backstory
I’ve been a software developer since 2012, that’s when I started studying Computer Engineering at University. Web development has always been my weak point. I haven’t touched web development since secondary school (2010). Developing basic (of course static) webpages describing my late cats, family, friends and my hobbies with HTML, frames and the few cool JavaScript animations are all I’ve ever done. At university I tried to avoid the webdev parts of projects because I thought it wasn’t interesting enough. This is something I regret to this day, it’s something I admire in the skillsets of a few of my colleagues, being able to condure up a quick dashboard to demo impressive improvements and feature additions in our platform is great when presenting your, sounds-impressive-but-what-does-it-do projects that take weeks to complete. I eventually gave up presenting some of the stuff because inventing ways to demonstrate the workings was more work than writing and testing the code itself.
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