I thought it'd be a good way to get “back to basics” and actually work on a problem from start to finish. My job right now is very much focused on improvements and productionization, so it feels like I haven't done any modelling in ages! Plus there have been a few things I've been meaning to play around with, and this was the perfect opportunity to do so.
And since my code/notebooks tend to be a huge mess (I guess that's what happens when you write code by jumping around all over the place...), plus I have this fancy blog that actually needs content, why not turn it into blog posts? It's a great idea all around.
If you consider website-making to be coding (and really, you should!), I've been coding since like... grade 3? which was in the 90's. I was a teeny child, making an AngelFire website, complete with Pokémon gifs. Specifically, this one:
Of course, there were other gifs as well. It was a) the era, and b) come on, I was like 9.
Anyway, I've been going back to my roots and playing with the CSS here, aka “stealing” code from elsewhere to make my site look half-decent haha.
I was casually browsing domain names and came across, well, iman.codes. Of course I thought, “well isn't this perfect for all that coding I do in my personal time?”
... yeah.
Well, I bought the domain name and set up the blog, so let's see about that coding in my personal time! There's a lot of stuff I've been meaning to take a closer look at, and hopefully this will give me more incentive to do it.
