Ever since I was 10 years old, I've always had a personal space on the web to express myself. I was blogging since Wix was known as Freewebs, armed with rudimentary HTML/ CSS knowledge and an excessive amount of glitter graphics. Back then, Web 2.0 was starting to gain traction, HTML5 and CSS3 were starting to be introduced, and the most popular browser was Internet Explorer. Nowadays, I'm jealous of the newfangled techniques that make web design easier, some of which I'll be discussing later in this post.
Over a decade later, I decided to take up the personal website game again, with considerably less glitter. The reasons for this was numerous - to document my journey in studying software engineering, write about my myriad of interests, experiment with designing website layouts to my heart's content, and express myself.
The title of this blog - "Commonplace Book" - refers to the concept of keeping a notebook to collect information. Similarly, this blog will serve as a collection of interesting information as I come across it. I wanted it to be the ultimate place for me to post about all of my interests.