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Hey, I'm CJ! I'm an aspiring graphics programmer/techincal artist/game developer from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I like coding and art and animation and walking and computers and languages and chasing my cat in the dark and reading and music. I haven't drank any caffeined beverages since 2022. 

> I do not use generative AI in any of my work, and I do not intend to.

## History
In 2021, I stumbled across Blender, and I spent my last two years in highschool playing around with the software. I had fallen in love with 3D animation at this point. I also played around with Unity, and took mostly coding and computer classes around this time. At some point, I took all the classes that were technology related. In 2023, I of course enrolled into software engineering in post-secondary school. Yikes. Spent a year through that and dropped out after realising it wasn't my cup of tea. It was through this experience, however, I realised I could combine my love for graphics and programming with, wait for it, :sparkles: ***graphics programming*** :sparkles:.  

During that software engineering schooling experience, I took an anthropology elective that really reöpened my interest in a lot of topics under that umbrella, most specifically languages (more info in [here](@/projects/language_stuff/_index.md)). In primary and secondary school, I had an interest in social studies and history, and now I study those topics on my own. 

Nowadays I'm trying to get back into 3D animation and game development, while trying to self-study and occasionally refurbishing computers.

## Stuff I use: 
- Blender (<span class="special">i wuv bwendew</span> )
- Godot (started using in 2025 to replace Unity)
- GIMP
- Krita
- i use arch btw 
- Neovim (code and text editor)
- Obsidian (note taking)
- fooyin (started using it in mid-January of 2026 instead of Spotify)
- Foliate (for e-book reading)
- Helium Browser (replaced Brave browser)