Alex's Blog

Yes! I finally did it! I created my own blog with a nifty portfolio and resuméesque section. Now it's time for the why. As I get closer to the end of my time in University and closer to my time as (hopefully) employed member of society, I realized that I have learned a lot of skills and a lot of things in the field of Computer Science. I know about the hot topics like Machine Learning and Big Data as well as the more basic skills like programming for the web. I have created a lot of programs to mess around with and have done a lot (seriously a lot of classwork and homework) But who knows that? Who knows about what I have done and the things I have studied? Sure I could have made a Linkedin and uploaded my resumé, but does that really tell you about the type of person I am. Aside from that school does a lot of good things, but teaching you how to be more attractive to potential employers is not exactly their bag. Plus besides one internship in the field of Computer Science I'm not exactly chock fulled of experience. Don't get me wrong I'm eager to learn more and study more about the new technologies out there and work for a company where I can not only improve myself, but also my company. But as I am now, my resumé could be better, so that's where this website comes in.

So I decided to jump in headfirst. I bought myself some server space and a domain name! Arguably the hardest first step is, as a broke college student, to spend money on yourself on essentially a gamble that this method would payoff and attract attention from employers, but I felt like it was the right thing to do. After shelling out some bucks, the next step was to actually create the website. I had experience creating websites for others, and I always put my best foot forward with the skills I have, but this would be my website. Mine. So, from all the things I had learned over the years I decided to give myself a little break with the CSS and use Bulma.io, which is my favorite CSS Framework, but experiment a lot more with Javascript and PHP. With Javascript, I have experience with Vue and jQuery, and called me old-fashion but I still prefer jQuery to anything else. With PHP I could have used another framework, but I really wanted to push myself and just go at it vanilla. I feel like that choice really paid off, although I do consider myself a full-stack developer, I really love the back-end stuff. The logic and the functions and just seeing things work instantly (or break instantly) make me really appreciate the time of computers we live in and I love it!

I also made the conscious decision to have my homepage be my blog because rather than hiding it in some tab up there, seeing it every time I stop by will give me motivation to continue writing and improving my skills. I want this website to be my digital home. I wanna write and communicate what is going on with me and I want this to be the place where I do that. You can stick around and see my improve my website, add more projects I've done, and add to my github. Follow along with me and we'll go far!