Published Date: 2021 April 2nd

Hey, I'm Ray :)

A little intro about myself and some of my interests, I'm a:

• Software developer
• Basketball fan
• Animal lover
• Travelling enthusiast
• Not-very-good gamer
• Somewhat decent cook

I'm also fascinated by anything astronomy related. Even though I might not have a strong grasp of some of the complex concepts, I still enjoy following the latest developments surrounding it and occasionally looking up at the night sky to appreciate its vastness.

So, what's this blog gonna be about?

Well to be honest with you, I'm not 100% sure.

There was a previous version of this blog that I made during my time in University, as a student with little experience trying to find an internship in the software world, the reason I made that blog was simple, to make something that looked decent enough to convince potential employers that I have some passable Side Projects™.

Like all things that are forced, it didn't turn out well. In fact, I don't think I spent more than a weekend on building the blog and probably even less time thinking about things to post on it. I made a corny 'hello world' post (similar to this one) and a crappy 'tutorial' post before that blog was never touched again.

I built this blog during the great plague of 2020 when I had a little too much time on my hands and a little too many things on my mind. It seemed like a perfect time for me to start a blog. Except this time I actually wanted to make one, the way I wanted to make it.

I don't really want this to be another typical programmer blog where every post is related to programming.

I hoped for this blog to be a somewhat representation of me and all my interests, I want to be able to talk about basketball, movies I enjoyed, music I listened to and maybe even how I view my life and what I think it's about.

How I built this blog

The blog is built with Gatsby + GraphQL, So far, there's ability to

• share and copy code blocks with syntax highlighting. I think this will be really useful for when I share my journey on learning new tech stacks or ML libraries.

• toggle between light and dark mode for both content and code blocks.

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1print("hello world 2.0")

I want to add features such as a tagging system, a comment section and maybe a newsletter in the very near future.

Anyways

I'm glad to have this place to share my thoughts, even if there's not many readers, I think this blog would be like a nice little journal to look back at after several years, cheers :)