About Me

Hi, I'm ExaltedToast, and I'm a garden-variety software engineer with a penchant for algorithms. My hobby is thinking about things, such as:

• Baduk
• Code
• Languages
• Literature
• Mathematics
• Pedagogy
• Software

Sometimes, I put those thoughts down in text.

Why this site?

I spend a lot of time doing stuff. In addition to my work as a developer, there's hobbies like language learning and reading, and far too many little scripts that I write and forget about. I wanted to have a repository to start writing about the things I do. Things I'm learning about or making, what's on my mind, a little slice of the internet where I could just talk about whatever I find cool.

That said, there aren't any guarantees on the upload schedule, since I generally only want to post here if I think I have something new to say. Most of a developer's time is spent reading, after all.

Also, I just happened to have a spare server lying around. May as well make a website with it. A lot of my friends are doing it!

How did you make it?

Static sites are generated with Eleventy, and served with Nginx. You can read the source code on the Git Repo.

Resources

There are a few resources that have been greatly influential to me. Hopefully some of them can help you out too. I also put quite a bit of information in my writing, see the Learning section.

• No More Zero Days is what got me started on being more than someone who plays games all day.
• A Mathematician's Lament and 3blue1brown are the sole resources that got me started on pursuing STEM as a career.
• Project Euler is the site that taught me most of what I know about problem solving.
• The Pragmatic Programmer is a book that I feel helped me transition from programmer to software engineer.
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code has solidifed a solid amount of my current opinions on unit testing.
• Jordan has no life is a fantastic Youtube channel if you want a primer on the stuff I do for a living.
• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
• How To Become A Hacker

Socials

I'm not really a fan of social media. I have a GitHub where I work on stuff, but aside from that there isn't much else.