About Me

Hi, I'm Simeon Widdis, a garden-variety software engineer with a penchant for algorithms. My hobby is thinking about things, such as:

• Code
• Go
• Languages
• Literature
• Mathematics
• Pedagogy
• Software

Sometimes, I put those thoughts down in text.

Why this site?

I spend a lot of time doing stuff. In addition to my work as a developer, there's hobbies like language learning and reading, and far too many little scripts that I write and forget about. I wanted to have a repository to start writing about the things I do. Things I'm learning about or making, what's on my mind, a little slice of the internet where I could just talk about whatever I find cool.

That said, there aren't any guarantees on the upload schedule, since I generally only want to post here if I think I have something new to say. Most of a developer's time is spent reading, after all.

Also, I just happened to have a spare server lying around. May as well make a website with it. A lot of my friends are doing it!

How did you make it?

Static sites are generated with Eleventy. Historically I served it on a VPS, but I've since moved to NearlyFreeSpeech. You can read the source code on the Git Repo.

Resources

There are a few resources that have been greatly influential to me. Hopefully some of them can help you out too. I also put quite a bit of information in my writing.

• No More Zero Days is what got me started on being more than someone who plays games all day.
• A Mathematician's Lament and 3blue1brown are the sole resources that got me started on pursuing STEM as a career.
• Project Euler is the site that taught me most of what I know about problem solving.
• The Pragmatic Programmer is a book that I feel helped me transition from programmer to software engineer.
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code has solidifed a solid amount of my current opinions on unit testing.
• Jordan has no life is a fantastic Youtube channel if you want a primer on the stuff I do for a living.
• How To Become A Hacker

Socials

I'm not really a fan of social media. I have a GitHub where I work on stuff, but aside from that there isn't much else.