Welcome to a slice of the interweb I call my own.
I am taking up this challenge as a means to take up more space in the world. I have meant to create a personal site for some time now but elected to do this only after reflecting on why I claim to love to write but do not engage with the craft as frequently. I concluded that writing on hosted platforms like Medium felt like having to perform for 8 billion people. And I was not ready to court that level of attention just yet. So I figured a personal blog would uniquely solve this problem as it affords me the opportunity to write, first, for myself; with the understanding that getting others to read will be a happy consequence of this cardinal objective.
For transparency, I used to blog on Wordpress back in the day so this is technically not a Hello World moment for me. However, those were simpler times; long before I chose software engineering as a profession. Fortunately, a side effect of spending a ridiculous amount of time with computers is that you eventually get comfortable enough to know the languages they speak, and some day, instruct them to do exactly what you ask. This is an endeavour I have found to be deeply meaningful, super exciting and very rewarding.
On most days, this space will serve as a canvas to write about the things that pique my technical curiosity. On other days, it will be an excuse to write about things that make my heart sing.
Fun fact: this site runs from a server I own. Considering how scared of computers I used to be just a few years ago, I am incredibly proud of how far I have come and all the beautiful things the future has in store.
Let’s do this!