We’re changing into a new face for this old project now, and boy, I gotta say, it’s about damn time, honestly.
It even has new features like the newsletter system and project showcase page, just like what I always intended to implement when I made this project. And it's got an awesome new style pallette too. I especially like the fact that it looks 1000% clanker-made, very much appropriate to current market styling these days.
I left this project “complete” in the sense that it was the version I finished while following the tutorial I used to make it, but overall, it was still kind of broken. Which is funny to think about now, because this project, the one I use to post my blogs, was actually my very first web project that I deployed that was non-static.
Can you believe that?
I guess that’s technically not true since I did publicly host Peerkada before using my own device as the server and hosting service, but that’s besides the point.
Crazy. Has it really been two goddamn years since then? What the hell.
Looking back, this really was the beginning of my software dev journey. Sure, I started programming scripting languages way back when I was a freshman in college, and I was already trying to hone my skills in that department. Then around 2021–2022, I was dead set on pursuing game dev, and I had my Unity days too, which were honestly fun and kind of nice.
And sure, yeah, I started my HTML, CSS, and JavaScript tutorials at the time of the massive software developer hiring boom, and I barely missed it like a stupid dumbass. But really, those times felt way too fragmented. It felt like a completely different branch of development compared to what I ended up pursuing the fuck out of these days, which is more software, web, and Android development.
And this little corner of the internet, this page with basically just me as the only traffic, marked the first real step of my path toward this blood-soaked destination of ambition.
It feels like I’m so far away from that version of myself now.
Before this, I didn’t even know what React was. What the fuck. Can you imagine??? Jesus, I don’t even know how much emphasis I can put into this, but seriously, the level of expectations people have for someone entering this industry is beyond bizarre.
Because fuck you mean we now have to learn senior-level architecture just to get a foot in the door?
Man, if the version of me who watched that tutorial could see me now, see how much I’ve accomplished, and see the projects that I’ve envisioned for years actually coming to life, what would that bro say?
“Ayo, you did all that and still got no job? Bro, you’re so fucked. What are you doing still sticking to a pipe dream, stupid bitch? You should’ve just become a goddamn civil engineer. FUCK.”
But regardless, hey, it’s life. We can’t expect perfection out of things, and the only question that really matters is whether I had fun with it.
And yes, I did :)
I’ll probably still choose this path in another lifetime, honestly. I don’t regret it.
Anyways, yeah. Enjoy my pretentious-ass new Matrix effect on the front page.
It looks sicc.
