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Svelte is like Rust for me in that I had heard good things for years before I even gave it a try.

Svelte is like Rust for me in that I loved it immediately.

It's really very simple to write in, the basic idea is engaging, and after trying it I wanted so badly for it to succeed. For context I have professional experience with vanilla JavaScript, React, and Angular. After transitioning a small app from Angular to Svelte, here were my takeaways…

Channeling my inner dev, I've gone ahead and completely re-written this site.…

I started this site for the same reason I imagine most software developers do: to get hired. Looking back, I'm not really surprised by the result: I was a perfectionist, it took a very long time (and a few tries), and it did not help me get hired. So, with that, and the face that I've been gainfully employed for almost a year now, why resurrect this old thing?

This site was made, primarily, as a vehicle for my resume. It could have been a one-day thing. Just find a pretty wordpress template, customize it a bit, and voilà! But where's the fun in that? I mean, what self-respecting dev doesn't love a good greenfield project.

"loremdipso"? What's that? Did you mean lorem ipsum? Or, ipso facto maybe?