About Me
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My name is Rod. I am a software developer from New York City. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Princeton in 2020 and I am currently a graduate student at Georgia Tech in the OMSCS program. I have a passion for theory, futurism, design, and music.
My hope in creating this website is to create a personal homepage for myself outside of the reach of the traditional platforms. In the days of my youth, these kinds of websites were more common, but now most traffic on the internet goes to social media sites and major social platforms. I’d like this to be an archive of my work and some writing as well.
Some other places you can find me: github, linkedin, are.na
If you’d like to contact me, you can send me an e-mail.
About this website
I'm glad to have you here. You could be anywhere, but somehow you landed here. Internet activity is now mostly concentrated toward large platforms and applications created by corporate programmers engineering us to become addicted to algorithmically-served "content". [1] This website grew out of a discontentment with such platforms and a remembrace of independent, personal homepages, both of yesteryear and the present day.
Before I ever studied computer science formally or did any work as a software developer, I started writing HTML and CSS over 15 years ago. Though there are many solutions to write decent, "professional" websites with almost no code, I have instead decided to write a more personalized website with many lines of code! This will allow me to work on a more personal "passion" project that I add to incrementally as time goes by.
I have had the idea to create a personal website for a while now, but I was motivated more after my discovey of the indie web and web revival movements. I created a pure HTML site on NeoCities just to try it out and support the community that is on the site at the moment, and it was a lot of fun.
Though some sites are more nostalgia-focused (and while I do, at times, enjoy the (post-)Y2K era internet aesthetic), I plan to use modern HTML5 and CSS and mix more future-focused elements with the simplistic, and classic elements of the web pages of yesteryear. This will include some web development and design experiments to be hosted here.
Please reach out to me if you encounter any accessibility issues, as addressing these is paramount to this project and a top priority.