Hello, world!

Hello, and welcome to my little corner of the internet.

Who?

First things first: Who am I? I'm a nerd who has always loved technology in some way shape or form. It all started from games—from playing them (a lot) to learning graphic/motion design to create gaming-related content. Then came dabbling in web development, but I never fully committed. I studied Interactive Multimedia (BA) and Creative Media (MA), both after a failed attempt at games development—which was funnily enough, my first attempt at blogging¹.

After college, the plan was to move to Berlin. Spoiler alert: You need money to move country (of which, I had none). So I applied for a bunch of jobs, some related to what I studied, most not. I ended up getting a job on a third-party support contract for Stripe. 12 months later, I got an internal role, and I've been there since (will be 5 years next month). I have worn many hats over that time, with my latest role being Technical Operations. It's a mixture of an operational and engineering role and helps ensure that Stripe's merchants get paid out reliably.

What?

This is going to be a mixture of a blog, a notebook, and a digital garden^{2 3}. Not only about software engineering, either—covering things I'm thinking about, books I'm reading, articles that piss me off, how training for triathlon is going, stuff like that. A couple of things that are top of mind:

• How I built this blog
• Learning Typescript
• Tally: A real-time, multiplayer pitch & putt scorecard tracking app
• Adding backlinking support to posts on this site
• Project-driven learning

This is and will continue to be a fluid list.

Why?

To create a trail of breadcrumbs that show where I started, where what I'm learning takes me, and to be able to look back on what I worked on, wrote to myself and accomplished. If I'm just talking to myself, that's okay. I don't care about reach, followers, anything like that. If someone gets something useful out of this, cool. If not, that's totally fine by me.