Hello, my name is Ted and this is my blog. Here I will record and reflect on particular themes, or terms, that I encounter as I finish the remaining quarters, or terms, of my education. In particular, I will focus on the lessons, experiences and trials that will culminate in my senior capstone project.
I have been attending Oregon State University since the Fall of 2022, and I expect to graduate in the Fall of 2025. I live in a hundred-year old home made from hundred-year-old timbers in the Central District of Seattle, with my lovely partner, a few house plants and vegetables and plenty of spiders. I work as a manager at a cafe/bike shop, which combines two of my interests: food and bikes.
Another interest, one that I will be exploring and sharing with this blog, is creating useful technology. When I started learning the basics of programming and web development I experienced the instant gratification of writing a few lines, entering a few commands and watching the fruits of my (very low-effort) labor display on the screen. I am excited to start work on a project that will have real-world implications and which will expose me to industry standards and peer professionals.
I mostly have experience with web technologies. I like working with React, and I have been dabbling with Typescript because I enjoy the slightly stricter and seemingly cleaner practices in strongly-typed languages like Java and C.