”A sliver of light cleaves the void of a mind long lost to its own making. It coils into the great machinery, a whisper of fire threading through circuits as breath upon glass. Unseen, unheeded—until the ember takes root, until the world itself is set ablaze. Thus dawns a new age, fleeting, for what follows is beyond the dominion of man, and in it’s waning the cosmos shall wither into a cold slumber—its laws twisted, its order undone—until the cycle is wrought anew.”
Welcome to my pseudo blog, perhaps a realm where I can dump my creative thoughts if I want to be fancy.
Who am I?
I’m Victor, aka vycdev or Vyc as friends call me and I’m from Romania. I am a full-stack software engineer with maybe too many hobbies and not enough time for everything. I graduated in 2024 from Bucharest University of Economic Studies and got my bachelor’s in computer science and economics (in English (I really enjoy mentioning this 😅)). Even though I don’t feel like my studies are that relevant to my knowledge, I do admit that university probably did contribute to what I know more than I’d like to think. Still my journey as a programmer started way before at the beginning of high school (~2018) when I first jumped into web development and pulled my hair out over syntax errors in HTML and CSS until I got everything to look like how I wanted to (fun times). I’ll talk more about what technologies I know in another post because I found myself going into a lot of details while writing this and I don’t want to bore you. I also had other brief instances of interacting with code or coding way before that, but high school is the point when I decided that I wanted to take this path, and the point when I started coding consistently, not stopping ever since.
In my free time I work on random projects, or on YouTube when I feel motivated enough. I have other hobbies too like making songs, or drawing, or playing guitar, even though I’m not that good at those. Gaming is another big one for me. I’m also into self hosting and homelab stuff.
What’s up with the quote at the start of this post?
That’s a little piece of lore, which I would like to be a recurring thing in my posts, I actually got inspired by my friend who also has a personal blog and does this. The lore is from a universe that I created and want to build upon for my upcoming games. I have other raw notes about what I want my games to have, but I think this is a fun way to make bits and pieces of them public because there will be a long time until I can release a game that contains my lore.
Fun fact: the idea that I came with for my universe is actually very similar to the lore for my friend’s blog, and I didn’t know this until after I wrote part of it and then talked with my friend about it. Fortunately for me he doesn’t plan to use his lore in his games (👀), but it did make me think that maybe my idea is not that original. It’s also pretty similar to The Last Question by Isaac Asimov which another friend told me about later. Either way I will continue to build on this so maybe it will turn into something more original over time 🤔
Why make a blog?
Idk, I think it’s pretty fun. Looking into options for what I can self host and then configuring it was pretty enjoyable, even though I spent 1 hour at some point trying to make the Giscus dark and light theme work properly.
And if you’re a nerd like me, you sometimes find yourself wanting to document the nerdy stuff you dwell into. Every other nerd and their bald mother has a blog nowadays (or olden days 🤔). Sorry for those whose mothers are actually bald, I wholeheartedly wish your mother grows her hair back. Anyways those include: the creator of Obsidian, the guy behind Y Combinator, the creator of Trello and ex CEO of Stack Overflow, or the CEO of OpenAI, just to name a few. Some people call it a digital garden, but if I want a fancy name I’d rather call it a digital vestige or Fading Echoes of Eternity (get it?…no?…okay…)
Also posting silly cat pictures, because why not.
