Things I'm doing now . . .

Look, mom, I have a website now!

I'm currently building this website, which should serve as my portfolio and digital gardern that I hope to grow and cultivate into a flourishing bloom. This project has taught me a lot about web develpment, both frontend and backend.

Mastering CSS

CSS has made me cry a few times. But I recently found a YouTube channel for CSS tutorials, run by the illustrious Kevin Powell. Kevin is an excellent teacher. And most of us call him the CSS King. Because of him, I feel less fustrated writing CSS. Check out link garden for links to his channel and other intereting resources on the internet.

Honing my full stack web development skills

I haven't landed my first paid project yet, but so far, I have built two decent websites, one for a tailoring business and another for an electric vehicle transport company. None of these are paid gigs. But the experience I'm gaining is enough reward for now.

Warped space, twisted time, and other cosmic shenanigans

Lately, I have been nurturing a growing interest in the mind-bending world of physics and astronmy. I don't consider myself a science person. I failed every single math, phyiscs, and chemistry exam I ever took.

But the discoveries of phyiscs about reality and the universe — how space and time warp, how gravity bends light, how the universe behaves weirdly when observed at the smallest of scales — are just awe-inspiring and deeply exhilarating.

Learning about these things has increased my faith and reverence for my God.

I have been reading and watching as much as I can, mostly lectures and books by Brain Greene and YouTube space documentaries. But I also have Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, and Brain Greene's Fabric of the Cosmos all lined up to read. Have some to recommend?.

At some point, I want to write about these ideas in a way that makes them just as exciting to others as they are to me. . . . Maybe turn all my fascination into something tangible — articles, essays, who knows? But for now, I’m just enjoying the ride, fascinated by everything, and occasionally having existential crises about the nature of time.

Looking for a job!

I'm currently in the market for a new job, hopefully in tech. I have been learning programming and honing my technical writing skills on the side for nearly two years now. I'm now actively applying for roles in web development and looking for my first client as a freelance technical writer. Frankly, job-hunting has been dry and frustating. Hoping for a breakthrough soon.