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+<center> <p> <a id="vaxandi_forritari" href="/projects/vaxandi_forritari/"> vaxandi forritari </a> |  <a id="aspiring_graphics_programmer" href="/projects/aspiring_graphics_programmer/"> aspiring graphics programmer </a> |  <a id="amateur_linguist" href="/projects/amateur_linguist/"> amateur linguist </a> | <a id="wannabe_game_developer" href="/projects/wannabe_game_developer/"> wannabe game developer </a> | <a id="adventuring_animator" href="/projects/adventuring_animator/"> adventuring animator </a> | <a id="music_enjoyer" href="/projects/music_enjoyer/">music enjoyer </a> </p> </center>
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+## Check out my stuff on: 
+- [GitHub](https://github.com/CJSatnarine) (All my coding projects are here)
+- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@CJSatnarine) (I'll upload something soon, probably)
+- [ArtStation](https://www.artstation.com/cjsatnarine) (I don't even use this but I guess maybe in the future I will)
+- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/cjsatnarine/) (I'm not on there so often)
+
+## Contact me via:
+- `.just_cj` : Discord
+- `satnarinecj101@gmail.com` : E-mail
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+Hallo, I'm CJ! I'm a 20 year old from Kitchener, Ontario with dreams of being a graphics programmer/technical artist/game developer. I attended Software Engineering Technology at Conestoga College between September 2023 and August 2024. Turned out software engineering wasn't my cup of tea, so I dropped out. Nowadays I'm just working on projects and trying to teach myself a few things.  
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+I do not use generative AI in any of my work. At this moment, I do not plan on using generative AI as I am not very fond of using it.  
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+<h2 id="vaxandi_forritari">
+    Vaxandi Forritari 
+</h2>
+
+The phrase ***Vaxandi Forritari*** is Icelandic for ***learning programmer***. I loved programming since I was 16, discovering my love for it in highschool when learning to make a game in the Unity game engine. I'm familiar with the following programming languages:
+- *C#*: learnt it in 2021 for scripting in Unity
+- *Java*: learnt it in Computer Science class in highschool, spent most of my time in Grades 11 and 12 using Java
+- *Processing*: used it for making graphics in Media Arts class in highschool
+- *Python*: learnt it for scripting with the [Blender Python API](https://docs.blender.org/api/current/index.html), later used it to try out Pygame and [Blender's game engine](https://upbge.org/#/)
+- *Arduino*: this is C but I learnt this before learning C/C++, used it in Computer Engineering classes in highschool
+- *C/C++*: used a bit of it for programming [Mirobo UBMP4s](https://mirobo.tech/ubmp4) in high school Computer Engineering classes, learnt way more in college when persuing software engineering
+- *6808 Assembly*: learnt it in college and I never want to touch it again
+- *HTML, CSS*: learnt it to make this website
+- *JavaScript*: learnt it to script in Three.js
+- *Lua*: used to configure Neovim, used a bit with LÖVE
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+<h2 id="aspiring_graphics_programmer">
+    Aspiring Graphics Programmer 
+</h2>
+
+My admiration for computer graphics grew with my interests in programming and 3D animation. Since July of 2024, I have been trying teaching myself graphics programming (it's difficult but I love it). Currently, I am teaching myself *OpenGL* and *GLSL*. Eventually, I hope to move onto something modern like *Vulkan* once I'm more experienced. I also hope to experiment more with *HLSL* in Unity and the *Godot Shader Language* in Godot. 
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+<h2 id="amateur_linguist"> 
+    Amateur Linguist 
+</h2>
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+From a young child I had an interest in linguistics. For a while, I was grinding Duolingo, but that felt more of a game than actually learning, so I stopped that and tried learning languages through other means. My native tongue is English, but I find interest in these other languages: 
+- *Deutsch*: currently learning both Hochdeutsch and Schwiizerdütsch from my Swiss friends
+- *Español*: learnt some Spanish when I was younger, not really good at it but I can barely hold a conversation
+- *Français*: learnt a bit in school, but my French is really bad as I often confuse Parisian French with Swiss French
+- *Nederlands*: learnt some when I was younger, I'm not as good as I used to be
+- *Dansk*: an unfortunate event occured
+- *Íslenska*: I know this cool Icelandic guy and the language is so cool because they still use þorn
+- *Norsk*: Norwegian is interesting but I already know some Danish and I'm not sure if I want to learn Danish but less funny-sounding
+- *Lingua Latina*: learnt a bit in school, pretty cool language
+- *ελληνικά*: Greek is kinda cool, I wanna learn it in the future
+- *Русский*: I have no interest in learning Russian but I am going to torture myself by learning Russian just to read Tolstoy's War and Peace its original language
+- *Suomi*: my brother is learning Finnish so I might learn it as well for the funnies
+- *Davvisámegiella*: I discovered Northern Sámi through music, and I think it's a cool language
+- *Kalaallisut*: Greenlandic was also discovered through music, I think it's also cool 
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+Unfortunately, I do not think I'll be able to learn all of these languages. That's fine, I'm happy about learning as much as I can. 
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+<h2 id="wannabe_game_developer"> 
+    Wannabe Game Developer 
+</h2>
+
+I have had an interest in game development for as long as I have been learning to program. Throughout my time programming, I have used (and plan to use) a couple of game engines: 
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+- *Unity*: this was where I learnt how to program in C#, and where most of my experience lies in terms of game engines (picked it up in 2021)
+- *Godot*: learning Godot because I love FOSS, I use C# instead of GDScript for scripting (picked it up in 2025)
+- *UPBGE*: tried out [Blender's game engine](https://upbge.org/#/) for a few months but I wasn't a fan of scripting in Python so I ditched it 
+- *GDevelop*: yeah no
+- *LÖVE*: tried it out but it was more of a playground than using it as an actual game engine
+- *Pygame*: did a bit in highschool, but that's about it
+- *Kyzen*: soon to be first beta tester of [Kyzen 2D game engine](https://github.com/luut189/kyzen)
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+<h2 id="adventuring_animator"> 
+    Adventuring Animator 
+</h2>
+
+While learning and falling in love with programming at age 16, I also fell in love with *Blender*. My introduction came from Media Arts class, where I initially learnt Blender for making assets for Unity. I fell in love with creating models and experimenting with shaders. The following two years of high school were spent developing my skills in the software. After graduating highschool, I stopped using the software to focus on software engineering for college for about two years. Now I hope to revisit this old passion of mine, and also venture into the unknown territory of digital art with *Krita*. 
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+<h2 id="music_enjoyer"> 
+    Music Enjoyer 
+</h2>
+
+I listen to a lot of music. Uh, what type of music? It's a complicated mess. The genres and languages of the music I listen to is all over the place. I hope to eventually learn how to make my own music for future animation and game development projects using [LMMS](https://lmms.io/).
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+title = "First blog post: Website Stuff"
+date = "2025-03-21"
+authors = ["CJ Satnarine"]
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+This is the first blog post I have made here, or any where for that matter. The entire purpose of this blog was to test out how it would be to write one.
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+## In the beginning...
+This website project started as a plain, unstyled HTML file that had a couple of changes occasionally. 
+![html_image](html_image.png)
+
+## The Head
+The idea for the head came from a project I was working on (a [tiny renderer](https://github.com/CJSatnarine/tiny_renderer)), where a wireframe render inspired me to add a rotating wireframe furry wolf head to my personal website. 
+<center><img src="output.gif" width="640" height="360"/></center>
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+To accomplish this, I created a wolf head in Blender and exported it in a Wavefront .obj format. I used [Three.js](https://threejs.org/) to render the wolf head on the website. This version of the website is where I also started using CSS. 
+
+I should note that this was the first time I was working with JavaScript and CSS, and if it wasn't for some amazing people guiding me and answering my questions, I would have probably not made it this far. To deploy this website, I used Vite. 
+
+## Zola
+I love using markdown. I prefer it over most other markup languages, and I write most of my notes in it. When I found out I could use markdown for web dev, I started to replace my previous website design to use Zola (mostly so I can get help from a friend that uses/recommended it). This took me about a week to do, somehow. 
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+## What next? 
+I plan on uploading more work onto here: projects, devlogs, art or animations, and more blogs.

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+This is where you'll find my projects. They're split into different categories, for my different interests. 

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+I sometimes animate. I want to start making more art. Here would be a place where I show my animations and artwork. 
+###### Projects coming soon!

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+I speak languages. I learn languages. I like languages. Here you will find my linguistics projects.
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+###### Projects coming soon!

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+I think graphics are cool. I really like graphics. When I grow up I want to be a graphics programmer. For now I can pretend I'm one while learning a few things. Here you'll find those learning projects.  
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+###### Projects coming soon!

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+I like music. I want to learn how to make music. Here you'll find my music projects. 
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+###### Projects coming soon!

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+Vaxandi forritari means *growing developer/programmer* in Icelandic. I'm still learning a lot, so I'm a *vaxandi forritari* in a way.  This is where you'll find my coding projects, tech projects, anything that's coding but not <a id="aspiring_graphics_programmer" href="/projects/aspiring_graphics_programmer/">graphics programming</a> or <a id="wannabe_game_developer" href="/projects/wannabe_game_developer/">game development</a>.
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+###### Projects coming soon!  

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+I like game development. Here you'll find my game dev projects. 
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+###### Projects coming soon!