this website

Hi there everyone and welcome to my little corner of the Internet. This first post is going to be a short one.

Some of you may know that this isn’t the first iteration of my website; back in 2022 I taught myself a bit of HTML and CSS using W3Schools and wrote a blog website in the hopes that I could write about some of the work I was doing with my school’s racing team, Firefly. The problem? I spent the best part of a month making small style adjustments, adding fancy animations and spending absolutely no time actually writing.

Another issue I had is that I didn’t really have anything of value to write about at the time, so I quickly lost motivation and shelved the project.

In the present day, I’d like to think that I do have interesting things to write about so I revisited the idea of building a website. I wanted to avoid the previous mistake of wasting time making something with flashy animations and bloated stylesheets so I settled on the design as it is today.

I’m going to commit to writing a post every fortnight or so for at least the next few months until I feel I’ve exhausted my supply. These posts may vary between small one-weekend jobs and longer-term, larger-scale projects I’ve worked on, some of which may be split into multiple parts if they deserve it.

I’d also like to thank my good friend Eliyahu for hosting this website. You should go and check out his website too!

With that out of the way, it’s time to actually start talking about engineering.

~J