I am a student at Western Governor’s University rn. I am getting a degree in computer science, but I know that isn’t enough. I am even worried that college’s price per performance ratio is worse than the RX 6800
Anyway, have a Linode server already and it’s a project that I have been working on off and on since June of 2019. Thus I don’t really know if that qualifies as elligible for Devember. Besides, web-dev, while being a useful skill, is not what I want to be my main focus in life. I want to work as a Security Engineer. I haven’t decided what aspect of security I want to focus on specifically though (i.e OS Security, Network Security, etc…). I think Linux kernel security would be fun. But I just like to explore. I’m like a friggin’ ADHD squirrel… though it may not help that I actually do have ADHD. If something interests me in the moment I just go at it. Sometimes I get quite focused on that one thing - hyperfocus is another symptom of ADHD. Anyway, another reason that I don’t want to use my website project as my Devember project is because it is sorta like a portfolio. Lots of people, especially freelancers, use them. But since I am going into programming I thought I might as well learn a bunch of things along the way instead of using something like WordPress. Note though, that if you do try to go to it right now, I have most of the content on my local machine for ease of development (cache is annoying), and the server only serves a “test” message to the client. This is because I am redesigining the entire [static] website’s design, so I don’t want the embarrassingly designed old website to be seen anymore xD.
Anyway, I know this is getting really really long now, but I say all that because I want my Devember project to be a blog CMS. I think I want to write it in PHP. PHP, however, isn’t a language I want to focus on in my career though. Python is. But, while my very first exposure to programming was a Python program I wrote in 8th grade, I have become very accustomed to C and C++. Thus I find Python to be a bit difficult for me to abstract out programs in. (Haha, I helped a vetinary major write the final project for our C class and he just sat there dumbfounded as I abstracted the program out with him. Finally, when I caught a bug before we even tried to compile it for the first time, he looked at me and said that I thought just like a computer.) Anyway, I did the PHP course on CodeCademy awhile back and found that it had a good mix of Python and C syntax. Thus I think it may be a good transitional language for me to try. I know most people say transitioning to languages is easy, but consider C’s for loop and Python’s for loop (which should actually be called a foreach loop). Also it is a perfect language to use for the blog backend for my website. And since I am learning SQL now, it just feels like that may be the right thing to do. If you want to know why I want a blog, well it is because I like to write. I am gonna at least try to put monthly content on the blog, and most of it will probably honestly be works of fiction. Some may be linux tutorials, and still others may be political or pursuasive in nature. Just whatever I feel like and whenever I feel like… the internet had bloggers before it had YouTubers lol.
Yeah I know this is a very roundabout way of explaining everything. I am sorry, and I hope you guys can get enough of the picture to offer support, encouragement, and constructive criticism (I don’t take kindly to hurtful criticism either… You have been warned). Also I have a github account at CodeDragon5793 and my website from earlier is at https://codedragon.dev. I have another domain which will host the blog at https://linuxdragon.dev but apache does not have a VirtualHost configured for it right now so you’ll get an error.