Oh wow.
I just realised that it’s already been a full year since I started this journey on this website!
That definitely calls for a special anniversary edition of the blog updates~
So, June 8th, 2025.
That was the day I reignited my determination to finally complete the Full Stack Web Developer course I had bought on Udemy during COVID.
I started all over again from the very basics: HTML and CSS.
Back then, words like Git and repositories meant absolutely nothing to me. And whenever I saw someone working in the command line, I was convinced they were some kind of wizard capable of hacking into anything.
And look at me now, hahahah. I went from building the simplest web pages to maintaining this website with HUGO, using Git, and happily pushing updates through the CLI myself. All those mysterious words that once sounded intimidating now actually make sense.
And, the most exciting thing? There is still so much left to learn.
There are countless things I want to build, skills I want to develop, and ideas I want to bring to life in the future.
But that’s enough reflecting on my tech journey for a moment.
A lot has changed outside of web development too.
My illustrations have evolved, my daily life looks different, and I’ve grown in ways that are much harder to measure than lines of code.
Without getting too personal—because I always have to keep an eye on my tendency to overshare 😅—I’ll let a visual do the talking instead.
One illustration represents me at the beginning of June 2025, where I am still not doing so great…
The other represents my life today. Where I feal peace and more in tune with myself and accepting of my differences with ’normal’ people.
Whether you’ve been following along since the beginning or you’ve only just stumbled across this little corner of the internet:
Thank you.
Thank you for taking the time to read my posts, look at my drawings, and share a small part of this journey with me.
I hope I’ll still be here a year from now, learning new things, creating strange little projects, and sharing them with you all.
Here’s to another year. ✨