If you're seeing this, you've either stumbled across my blog by accident or I've harassed you enough about visiting it that you decided to check it out. Please read through this post to get some idea about this blog, and then feel free to browse the rest of the site.
I purchased omajoshi.com in November 2017 and have used it as the back-end for a couple of coding projects. On the front-end, it's been a blank page up until now, so I'm finally fulfilling my promise to organize an actual website for myself.
I have a handful of "stated" goals for this blog:
To get better at writing: writing has never been my favorite thing to do, so I think the easiest way for me to get better and enjoy writing more is to write about things that interest me, like math and computer science. In addition, I'm approaching college admissions season, so I figure the practice of writing (blog posts) will keep me in shape for when I have to write college essays.
To keep track of my thoughts: in the past, I never kept a thought journal (I resisted whenever my parents tried to force me). But, I have a lot of random (usually frivolous) thoughts floating around in my head, and it's probably a good idea to keep track of them somewhere permanent. This way, I can look back in a couple of years and recall what I was addicted to.
To maintain a record of my personal projects: typically, I spend a couple of days on some small coding project which then gets stored on my hard drive, with no documentation, never to be seen again. If I write about my projects, I'll have some idea about what I was trying to do.
To document the cool things I find or learn about: I find a lot of joy in learning brand-new things, so I spend a significant amount of time on the Internet searching for different topics to immerse myself in / obsess over. I plan on occasionally dumping all of my miscellaneous findings into a post every so often.
To catalog the funny things I find: this will most likely be a collection of screenshots from things I come across that made me laugh. The goal of this blog is to have fun!
*: I'm probably missing something important so I'm including a catch-all #6 on this list just in case.
Blogger.com was the easiest way to spin this site up with minimal computer knowledge (it took a little bit of tinkering to get https://blog.omajoshi.com to point to this blog), but I'll eventually code a custom blog platform (probably in Django) and write about that project once it's done.
One last thing before I publish: this is meant to be a learning experience. I'm not an expert in anything, and nothing I post is going to be a perfect product (both in terms of content and writing). I hope starting this blog can help me grow in multiple directions ("spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically," and most of all, vertically) and potentially transform into a project I maintain for many years.
I'd like to thank my parents for giving me Internet access - without them, I would have never been able to purchase a website, and omajoshi.com would be owned by someone else named Om A Joshi.