Hello dear reader, and welcome to my very first blog post.
I’ve been thinking for a while about whether I should start writing publicly, and I kept postponing it. Partly because I wasn’t sure anyone would care, and partly because putting your thoughts out there means they’re no longer safely hidden in your own head. Still, I’ve come to realise that documenting what you learn and build is too valuable to ignore.
Over the past few years I’ve spent a lot of time teaching myself different things, especially within software engineering. When people hear about what I’ve built or learned, they sometimes praise me for being smart or for doing a lot at a young age. It’s always a bit strange to hear, because that’s not how it feels from the inside. Most of the time I feel like I’m behind, missing obvious things, or not moving fast enough.
I think part of that feeling comes from not having a clear record of progress. When growth happens slowly, it’s almost invisible day to day. It’s a bit like when you were a kid and your height was marked on a wall once a year. You didn’t notice yourself getting taller each morning, but when you looked back at the marks, the difference was suddenly obvious. Without those marks, it would have been much harder to see how far you’d come.
That’s exactly what I want this blog to be. A place where I can leave those marks over time. Somewhere to document what I’m learning, what I’m building, what works, and what absolutely does not. Not as a highlight reel, but as an honest timeline of progress.
Writing things down also forces me to understand them properly. If I can’t explain something in simple terms, I probably don’t understand it well enough yet. By sharing that process publicly, I get both a personal archive and, hopefully, something that might help someone else who’s on a similar path.
So this blog is for two audiences. First, for myself, so I can look back in a year or five and clearly see the difference. Second, for you, if you happen to be learning, building, or figuring things out along the way too.
Let’s see where this goes.