Shaiya J.

About me

I'm a hobbyist programmer who is focused on both high and low level development. I intend this website to complement my Github - with my portfolio and blog providing a formal presentation and informal musings on my past projects.

My activity may be very patchy, as I'm attending school and don't want to get too sidetracked.

Programming

I don't really have a specific area I stick to when making things - I just work on whatever I have ideas for. Typically this will be lower level things in C/Rust, but sometimes it's just small scripts written in Python or web utilities written in Javascript. I don't have many completed projects at the moment since I have the tendency to jump ship as soon as I have a new idea, but when I do complete something that I think is neat I'll put it on the blog or portfolio.

My main interests at the moment are in low-level programming and peer to peer networking. So, when things do get finished, expect to see a lot of that. I also find myself accidentally making games using obscure/unconventional methods (although, I wouldn't consider myself a game developer at heart). All of these projects are hobbyist, I consider them learning experiences for me to take forward into future projects.

Other hobbies/pastimes

I may talk about my other hobbies on the blog, especially if I make projects geared towards those other hobbies.

My main hobbies are phonetics and literature. I particularly like the works of 芥川龍之介 (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa).

My favourite pastime is Mahjong. I play online and in real life, and I sometimes teach other people how to play.

Using this website

Parts of the website are still under progress. But there is a working blog, which is where you'll find most of my incoherent ramblings.

I wrote this website to be very quickly functional, so parts of it will probably change as I focus on (HEAVILY) cleaning it up. I've been wanting a place to display my other projects in a clean(er) format than Github repos allows. I am by no means a web developer - so development may be slow.