Who Am I?

If you're reading this, theres a chance I wrote something interesting some time after today and you were curious who made such an interesting/garbage blog post. I hope it was the former, but early on it might be the latter.

My name is Braden, and I'm a full-stack developer. I graduated from a small college in the midwest and managed to luck/skill my way into a job in big tech after an internship I completed over my junior year summer. While this offer was for a frontend position, I was shifted to a backend position, leading to me:

1. Rounding out my skillset
2. Needing to learn a ton of stuff
3. Missing my creative outlet for frontend work

As a result of this, I have created several side projects, this being one of them.

What is this Blog?

This blog is, at this point, somewhat up in the air. Truthfully, this was built off of the husk of an abandoned project that was a blog with a different, non-technical topic. It was a fun experiment in "how the hell do I make a blog from scratch?", but I'm glad to shuffle its remains around to create this blog.

The content of this blog will likely be frontend-centric, as it is by far the most enjoyable part of coding for me. Stuff like what shows up on the trending page of CodePen and in videos from creators like @Hyperplexed inspire me to figure out what can be done in web design/development that hasn't been done yet.

While a lot of this blog's design right now is very safe (and heavily inspired by Josh W Comeau), I hope researching, learning, and writing about new frontend ideas and techniques will help make this a living snapshot of my style and ability.

What will be written about?

Good question, I have no idea! To start out, I'll probably write about some common frontend stuff, whether its cool flexbox stuff or animated gradients or whatnot. This will be more to familiarize myself with how to write articles like this while still having some sort of personal tone. I'm not trying to compete with W3Schools (I wouldn't win that battle even if I tried). My goal is to create informational articles that don't feel like a textbook but instead feel like that one classmate from undergrad that carried you in every group project.

Conclusion

To wrap up this unplanned, meandering article, I hope this project lasts more than a month. I'd really like to continue blogging whether it is once a week or once a year. I truly believe that teaching others is the best way to ensure you truly understand a topic, so if nothing else, this will be a great exercise for me as a young developer.

If you have any advice, comments, or insults, throw them my way on Twitter and I'll check it out every once in a while.

Here's to a blog that maybe will teach a few people something someday, if not just myself.