This generally needs to be updated.
Still a work in progress. this was a bit of a learning project for me. While I've done bits of coding here and there, most of my life has been in the system administration and operations world.
I had been very casually dabbling in various other languages through as it seemed like a good idea to beef up my coding skills. While wandering in the quagmire of coding languages, frameworks and backends, I dropped into Ruby's gravitational field and found myself hooked.
I found GitHub pages to be a very convenient place for hosting, and then I learned about Jekyll and grew very interested in the idea of static site generators.
From a non-technical perspective, there are several other reasons that I was attracted to Ruby (and further, Rails):
- Community
- RailsGirls
- Cool logo
- Jekyll has been fun and for the most part, rather friendly
From a technical perspective:
- Ruby knowledge will be applicable to Puppet/Chef
- Rails while heavy is quick and easy to get running, good for prototyping
I don't have enough of the foundations and fundamentals of down to speak to any of the other technical reasons that ruby may excel over but hope to discover this somewhere through this journey.
Jekyll theme based on Grayscale bootstrap theme
Font Awesome for the iconography
Lovingly created with Atom
Reference sites I used while learning:
...google
and other resources I used to be added here soon once I can dig back through bookmarks and notes :)
photos by me unless otherwise noted
0 self portrait. gleaming lights of the souls by yayoi kusama, københavn, denmark.
1 pacific ocean, waiting for a wave. photo by @seanleftbelow
2 server motherboard. photo by @seanleftbelow, contrast added later
3 keyboard decomposition. iPhone photo
4 night of innovation with Girls in Tech LA at red bull HQ. photo by @seanleftbelow