Hi. I’m Srimanta Barua, as the title conveniently tells you. And okay, I know this looks ugly. But I’m not a web developer.
Why not use a site generator?
Well, I tried. Then I realized that with this, like everything else I work on, I feel uncomfortable working without understanding everything about what’s going on under the hood. And so, I decided that I needed to try my hand at web development, even if only for a few days. And this is the result of what I’ve learnt in the last four days. So yeah, do expect a lot of stuff to change over the next month or so, as I learn of better ways to do things.
Fair enough. So why did you start a blog, again?
I’ve always wanted to broadcast to the world about stuff I learn in the course of my random experiments. That’s probably why I love teaching too.. telling people about “stuff they don’t teach you in school”. So I’ve always wanted to write a blog, but never got around to doing so.
And then, I got selected for GSoC ‘17 with radare2.
I’ll be talking about that in a later post. But the point is, GSoC students are expected to maintain a blog to document their work, their difficulties, stuff they’ve learnt, etc. And I found the perfect excuse to finally buy that domain name, and start my blog with free hosting on GitHub pages.
This “blog” is just starting out now. There’s not much to see. But I hope to write fairly regularly, whenever I have stuff to share. So hopefully it won’t be so bare for long. Plus I hope it will be much better looking, a month or so from now.
It promises to be an interesting summer.