An Introduction
Welcome
Welcome to my blog, whatever I may end up putting here. Wow, that sounds really boring, doesn't it? Most of these blogs (especially the more personal ones) are not going to be written particularly professionally, this is just my space for jotting my thoughts, I hope you enjoy.
Who I am I?
First off, go read my about page, that'll have some good, and more importantly up-to-date information about me for you. But if you really want to know some more information about me, here you go, though keep in mind that all that I put here is only relevant to the time of writing this.
I'm Talyn, a 19 year old first year comp-sci undergraduate student. I've been programming a lot longer than I've been in university though, I was first experimenting with an Arduino in Grade 5, almost 10 years ago now. Admittedly, I didn't program all that much throughout junior high school (grades 7-9), although I did still make some projects. Mostly, I was busy dealing with a tiny little global pandemic that forced me out of my classroom for grades 8 and 9 (crazy right?).
In high school, however, I started doing computer science as an actual class, and as per the teacher's directive, learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for three years straight. That's really where my abilities started to skyrocket, as I obviously already had a decent jumping-off point, but from there I really just had a great opportunity to learn more.
In eleventh grade, we were supposed to learn a bit of python, and pick a third language to learn in twelfth grade. Although we were encouraged to learn "easier" languages such as C# and the likes, I asked to personally learn Rust, which my teacher allowed me to do. Honestly, stupid idea, but the best choice I made at the same time. Since then, I've learned a lot, become a much better programmer, and truly learned to love this amazing language. Do I think that everything should be (re)written in Rust? No, some tasks are really just not suited for Rust, but it still is a very impressively versatile language.
Now, at the end of my last year of high school, I ran into a slight... hiccup, if you can call it that. More specifically, I figured out, after a long year or more of questioning, that I was transgender. Okay yes, I'm a comp sci trans-girl who likes Rust, so sue me. While that might not serve as much of a literal roadblock, I think most of you reading this can imagine that dealing with that mentally and socially (and sometimes even physically) is not easy or simple.
That's also why if you try to find any of the projects I've worked on or competitions I've participated in, you won't find much. Everything from before is linked to my deadname, so I've been trying to bury it well, and I'll bury them harder as time goes on.
So what now?
Well, that's a good question. Really, my life is only just starting, not just because I'm only recently an adult, but up to this point in my life, I've mostly just been drifting. I'm only just starting to actually actually become a person, and to define who I am to me, and to the world. I'm going to keep going through my transition, I'm going to keep going through my education, and I'm going to keep learning more about who I am. Currently, the biggest thing I'm looking forward to is participating in Google Summer of Code this summer. Look forward to more blog posts about that, I'm planning on it.
To anybody who's checking this out, thank you, I'm glad you could be here.