From e6496bdd8cc0eaeac540bc1080622fcea68ac688 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: CJSatnarine Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:21:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] update lots in aboutme --- blog/content/about_me/_index.md | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/blog/content/about_me/_index.md b/blog/content/about_me/_index.md index 57b0daa..a0387ab 100644 --- a/blog/content/about_me/_index.md +++ b/blog/content/about_me/_index.md @@ -2,47 +2,50 @@ template = "index.html" title = "CJ Satnarine" +++ -I'm a 20 year old Software Engineering drop out from Kitchener, Ontario. I love FOSS. +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 I didn't like software engineering, so I dropped out. Nowadays I'm just working on projects and trying to teach myself a few things. + +I like sharing and learning about things relating to my interests in maths, art, computer graphics, linguistics, history, tech, and programming. I love FOSS. I use arch linux with NeoVim as my IDE/text editor.

Vaxandi Forritari

-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. I'm familiar with the following programming languages: -- *C#*#: learnt it in 2021 for scripting in Unity +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) +- *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

Aspiring Graphics Programmer

-My interest in graphics rose after realising that I didn't like software engineering, but instead graphics and programming. +My admiration for computer graphics grew with my interests in programming and 3D animation. Finding out I can combine my love for programming and graphics changed me. 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.

Amateur Linguist

-I'm really into languages. Since I was kid, I have loved learning about other cultures and traditions, including their languages. 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 am interested in so many languages: -- *Deutsch*: currently learning Hochdeutsch by myself, learning Schwiizerdütsch from my Swiss friends +I'm really into languages. Since I was kid, I have loved learning about other cultures and traditions, including their languages. 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 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 -- *Norsk*: Norwegian is interesting but I already know some Danish and I'm not sure if I want to learn Danish cloned -- *lingua latina*: learnt a bit in school, pretty cool language +- *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 intention of learning Russian but a friend said I should learn Russian just to read Tolstoy's War and Peace in the original Russian +- *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 my music, I think it's also cool +- *Davvisámegiella*: I discovered Northern Sámi through music, and I think it's a cool language +- *Kalaallisut*: Greenlandic was also discovered through my music, I think it's also cool 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. @@ -50,15 +53,26 @@ Unfortunately, I do not think I'll be able to learn all of these languages. That Wannabe Game Developer -As mentioned, my interest in programming came from learning how to make a game in Unity. I still dabble around with Unity, but now I plan on working in Godot. I also had a period where I tried to work with [Blender's game engine](https://upbge.org/#/), but I didn't end up liking it (I'm not a huge fan of Python). +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: + +- *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)

Adventuring Animator

+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*. +

Music Enjoyer

-I listen to a lot of music. A lot of the music I listen to are in other languages, German in particular. I hope to eventually learn how to make my own music, for both games +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/). +