Introducing the crypticwyrm - Now available on Steemit (My introduction post)

Hello, Steemit!

I’ve been here for about a month now, still trying to figure out how a few of the details work, but I guess it’s time for my introduction post.

I wasn’t sure how I feel about sharing a picture of my mug here, I think a modicum of privacy is a good idea for now, so I thought I will go halfway and show a picture of me with a wooden board covering up my face. From an artistic perspective, it also shows you what I think about taking oneself too seriously. At least if you know German idioms (it means someone who stumbles around blindly like an idiot, and I fully embrace that).

I’ll give you a few seconds to recover from that picture. Take deep breaths, you’re safe now, nothing can hurt you. Well, besides knifes. And guns. And drowning, that can’t be healthy. Man, life is dangerous! How are you even still alive? What are you, some kind of superhero!?

So anyhow, as you can probably see from the darkness surrounding me in that picture, I’m a software developer. We’re like vampires, we shy away from the light, only difference really is that we drink coffee not blood, and lots of it! Well, that and the whole immortality thing. Okay, so we’re nothing like vampires. Man. You people with your logic and reason! But anyhow, coffee or rather caffeine is pretty much the life force that keeps us going, so that bit is true.

(I love pixel art and retro gaming graphics in general, I’m bad at it, but I still love doing it, it’s like Lego for people too lazy to clean up after playing)

I’m from Germany and I’m in my early thirties. I do full stack web development, desktop and mobile development, some hobby game development, pretty much everything. Programming is both my job and my hobby. I started with it when I was a little kid and have been doing it ever since.

Aside from that I absolutely love reading books, mostly Sci-Fi and Fantasy, have written my fair share of disgustingly mushy fanfiction (I’m going to write a book someday, believe you me, if you don’t, who will?), sometimes play (mostly old or indie) video games, love watching funny TV shows and movies.

I wasn’t sure if I should write that down because who doesn’t watch TV and movies, but there you go, now the list is a bit longer, gotta stretch those things, make it look like you’re actually doing something. Oh and Skydiving. Now that is adventurous hobby! Ah, jumping out of a plane and plunging down to the earth. The adrenaline rush! Well, I haven’t done any of that, sorry for getting your hopes up.

Since I’m a programmer and still trying to figure out how some of the finer details of Steemit work, I thought what better way to find out than to fiddle around with it’s (JavaScript) programming API for a few hours (see Exhibit A).

Exhibit A:

Not sure yet where I’m going with it, just playing around with different ways of displaying Steem posts right now. This is a design where you can open users or tags in different streams sorted by date/trending/etc to get a nice overview of what’s happening on Steem. So more like a Twitter Tweetdeck / Tweetbot style of display, which I find really convenient. I’ll probably try out a Pinterest style display too.

If this looks interesting to you or you share my love of books, dank humor, technology and whatnot, feel free to follow me for updates on what I’m working on, probably some posts about programming (and likely some posts on how to learn it since I’ve been teaching programming from time to time), tech in general, crypto stuff, decentralizing the internet, fancy books, and whatever else I might end up posting here.

Anyhow, thanks for reading! Maybe we’ll see each other in the comments some time. Or maybe you will see one of my future posts. Or maybe you’re the adventurous type and follow me even though this is my first post (besides comments) so you can’t know what to expect. Who knows what rabbit holes we’ll go down together!

But for now, goodbye!