Hello World
January 2022
So I have decided to make a personal website, now what? It is uncommon for graduate students in materials science to make a their own website; however for me there are many reasons:
- Start blogging, as a way to maintain writing skills. I plan on posting a mix of science and personal content.
- Showcase my research
- Write up “how to” blogs so that people don’t have to spend hours working out how to do the things I have done. This is also handy when I need to revisit something I did and cannot remember how to do it.
- Understand the internet better and learn how to deploy and maintain a website
I learnt how to program using MATLAB which is a great tool for for routine scientific computing tasks. I’m a big fan of MATLAB as it is a great more straight forward way of quickly visualising your data. You also don’t have to deal with ‘CS stuff’ like libraries, dependencies, etc., but, other languages like ‘Python’ are certainly more prominent in the software engineer roles, so I have also expanded my range and started using this too. So this website will be partially an exercise in breaking out of my ‘MATLAB’ comfort zone.
Making this website
I initially based this website on Peter M. Attia’s website which I found intriguing and thought I could accomplish something similar. The website was created using Jekyll on Github and I may shift this in the future to something more permanent, but currently want to just get this started and to be a place to host my CV. Jekyll is a static site generator, which means it creates nice-looking, speedy websites from relatively simple text editor input. I have now shifted to using the Moonwalk theme.