What is this?

This is me following along with the Laracasts Laravel from Scratch series for Laravel 5.7.

I guess you can consider this both a part of my portfolio as well as merely me working on (re)acquiring skills both old and new.

Once done, I'll likely redo things (visually)--with perhaps Bootstrap, Vuetify, Quasar components or something like that--to demonstrate that I possess the capabilities required.

I like to follow the make it work (1); make it work well/properly (2); make it pretty (3) principal.

Why PHP and Laravel?

Most of my experience as of the last few years has been solely with web technologies--primarily the frontend--as well NodeJS.

I decided it's time to relearn some old backend-related skills such as PHP, Postgres, Nginx, server administration/management etc. and to brush up on some old concepts like ORMs and MVC and so on.

I have previous experience with PHP from the PHP 5 days, so it seemed like as good a choice as any.

Who are you?

I'm an unemployed music, (natural) language, gaming, science and technology nerd who is trying to make himself more employable.

I like to play Minecraft; watch Doctor Who; listen to Muse; read classic, sci-fi,utopian/dystopian fiction; learn languages and play piano.

My current focus is on (re)learning modern frontend and backend development tools, technologies and techniques and my secondary focus is my language learning app for Swedish (my favourite language).

Where can I find you?

• I spend arguably far too much time on Discord (sustained#2329).
• I have a temporary website setup but it doesn't really do much yet.
• I'm not particularly well versed in the art of tweeting, one could argue.
• I don't post Medium articles like I should (don't all developers do that?).
• Here on Github you can('t) find my private repos for abandoned projects!
• LinkedIn is overrated (or could be that this is why I don't have a job?).
• etc.

When did you start?

I became involved with several forum communities around 2003-2004 and shortly thereafter began learning HTML, CSS and PHP in order to be able to help make the forums better.

It's been a hobby ever since, on and off at least - burnout and depression is real. I've done several websites for companies (freelancing) but aside from that I have zero professional experience.

It would be nice to get a job doing something I've always enjoyed, but being employable is hard especially with chronic depression. I'll keep working on my language-learning platform in hopes that I can support myself though, since you won't give me money~