My Web Journey of Sorts (WIP)

This page was generated from trying to create the homepage and became more the personal journey from when time was to when time is. This page is also a Work In Progress which is why its not linked, so if you found it, yay! You can learn that I didn't care much for the bloated jQuery!

Always growing and never afraid to learn from my mistakes. Starting young I realized I had a passion for digging deep, understanding and figuring something out. With the likes of something like Yahoo or Ask Jeeves (I have to assume..) I took to building my first website. Learning basic HTML and understanding bits and pieces to learn about ports, that is another rabbit hole for later...

Through the years learning PHP/MySQL, I really thought I was going to do that forever, but forever is a long time. I realized I enjoyed digging through code, debugging and fixing broken things. The joy of something working, you know that joy, when it "finally works". PHP was where I spent a lot of time, but soon found myself wanting to learning something else, more parts to putting pieces together.

The Transition

Although a side step to where I imagined myself, I started to pay attention to JavaScript and soon found myself using jQuery (🤮) anywhere I could. That passion for diving deeper had me dig into what was powering all these neat little functions I was calling and how it wrapped everything to be so magical!. Turns out a lot of simple calls were not much more lines of code and using the whole library was kind of overkill. I started to unravel jQuery I used and wrote vanilla JS from that day forward.

Fast Forward

Decentralization and owning our data is the next step in Web. Building front end interfaces, combining back-end logic to Blockchain and learning rust based Smart Contracts.

Doing research a.k.a. "rabbit holes" from understanding the evolution of Pikachu to converting a hexadecimal or binary value to an integer using overly complicated methods while learning Big vs Little Endian, creating these overly run-on sentences is part of how the alias was obtained.

Browser consoles convert these things on the fly such that 0x1337 (hex) is equal to 0b10100111001 (binary) and as an integer we get 4919. Neat - Bender from FuturamaNeat.