Hello! My name is Anas. I’m a software engineer currently residing in the south of France. I quite enjoy software engineering, music, and video games.

I recently finished my last year of studies, and since I wasn’t able to line up a job immediately after graduation, I find myself with a lot of free time and honestly, I’m not entirely sure what to do with it all. So I’ve decided to make myself useful during this time by continuing to build the projects I’ve already started and training myself with LeetCode problems. But I also want to try something new: documenting my unemployment adventures and sharing what I learn along the way. And that’s why I created this blog.

If anything, I’d like it to serve as a way to share what I know and showcase my skills, while also collecting feedback about my discoveries and opinions. Hopefully, this will lead to further learning down the line and ultimately help me hone my skills as a software engineer.

I read online that everyone should have at least one way to express themselves—kind of an artistic outlet to externalize your thoughts instead of keeping them stuck inside your head. It could be anything: writing, acting, music, you name it.

For the longest time, that outlet used to be music for me. I would religiously plant myself in my chair with my DAW in front of me, trying to translate whatever feelings I had going on into the music I was creating. After a while though, that music creation was replaced by software creation. Now, at any time of day, I might have a new idea for a website, app, or automation tool, and I’ll sit down to try to bring it to life.

While that works great as a way to create and avoid just being a consumer, websites and apps themselves don’t really spark conversation. I could write a website, publish it, and maybe even get users, but I’m thinking that documenting the experience of building these projects—and the things I learn while building them—might be a better medium for actually creating dialogue around my work. It could help me deepen my understanding of software development by getting input from people much smarter than I am.

So in conclusion, I made this blog to share my thoughts and experiences, hoping they might help other people discover new ways to do things. At the same time, I hope it will help me document my journey and continue honing my skills.

I hope you’ll stick around and read some of my upcoming posts. If you have any feedback, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you for your time!