This blog's Hello World (or whatever you want to call this site)
A short note on why this exists and what I plan to write about here.
I’ve always had a creative side, as anyone who knows me can tell you. Sometimes it gets tucked away somewhere obscure, in the back of a drawer, waiting years to be used. And sometimes I make really good use of it. I’ve always loved writing, and I’ve wanted a place of my own to publish my thoughts for a long time. Only the ones I’d want to be public, of course. Nobody wants to hand over the entire inner workings of their brain just like that, for free. Still, I think some of my intellectual adventures deserve a bit of exposure, especially since, without someone to judge them, I’ll never know if they were worth it.
One of my inspirations for creating a site/blog was Fábio Akita. I’ve been following him for a long time, and it was through the videos on his YouTube channel that I started studying computer science, before I even got into college. Even though the videos are genuinely great, teaching things that are hard to learn any other way, after a while of binge-watching them I found his blog, akitaonrails.com. I thought it was super cool, and I liked the idea of having a personal place to share your opinions and the things you’ve learned.
Akita is a seasoned guy who’s been in the industry for years. Me? Just a student slightly ahead of the material in my CS program. To people my age, this whole writing thing, having a blog, sounds like something old people do. But, like I said in my last post, I like the idea of doing things the old-fashioned way every now and then. The word “Blog” sounds so 2010, but I don’t know what else I’d call this crappy site you’re reading. I guess “blog” it is. Good thing I’ve been practicing caring less about what other people think, and look at that: it’s working!
Anyway, call it whatever you want, I think it’s worth posting something here every now and then. Even if nobody’s interested, whatever! Then let it just be my public folder of notes. Just the fact that I opened the drawer and pulled my creativity out from the back of it already makes it all worth it.