It is so cool that blender is open source and free for all so go and check it out!

I wanted to combine both programming languages javascript and php in one projects and a few months later the first version of Vocalearn was in production.

Because of this project I deep dived into MySQL for the first time.

Using MySQL one is able to create lessons, share them with others, add vocabulary, structure them in folders and of course learn them.

Vocalearn teaches you your vocabulary efficently because of its great algorithm!

Next was Angular for wich I read the documentation for two weeks before I started coding. If I now look back it was a really good idea. I ❤️ Angular. Typescript, Components, Observables, Subscriptions, Services, Directives, Pipes, The Redux pattern, State Management, Higher Order Mapping, Guards, Modules, Lazy Loading etc. makes it really powerful.

However developing online UNU was nearly impossible without websockets.

This is why I simply used Node.js which was cool as you don't have to learn another programming language

I used Node.js in combination with Typescript for developing the server for UNU and it works great!

At the beginning I already told you that I developed Minecraft plugins. However that wasn't the whole story

When I had a question concerning SpigotMC I turned to the community in their forum. Answering my post user "Player_Schark" asked me if I wanted to help him developing a Minecraft-Server-Network! Up to this point I had been looking for people to program with for the last three years, now I found them!

It is so cool to work with others in a team! Together we set up a maven repository to provide our own apis. We resolve issues and implement features, stay up all night to develop, laugh and cry together. Not the finished product is what makes it special, but the journey to get there.

Another advantage of working in a team is that you can learn a lot from your team members. Because of "Player_Schark" I have gotten a good understanding of how Java works. Without him I wouldn't be as fluent in Java as I am today and i couldn't say Java is the programming language I know best! (Thank you Player_Schark!)

As good as NodeJS looks, it also has its flaws. The huge dependency tree and the fact that you have to compile the typescript files first to run it aren't that beneficial. I stumbled across GoLang and it's great tour. The syntax was quite different from what I've already known from other programming languages before which was quite interesting.

I really enjoy developing in GoLang, although it wasn't easy to do so "the go way" as it's quite different to known programming languages. The backend of many projects, for example Project Solis and the Selling System were made with GoLang.

Angular is really cool, no doubts, however, with its many built-in features it's quite large and heavy. This is why I started using React, a competitor by Meta. It is quite different and definetly more lightweight than Angular. For simpler projects for me it is just easier to use React. Many of my projects are developed with React. The Unu game which I claimed to be developed with Angular, is now rewritten with React and this story you are currently reading is also on a website developed with React.

Both React and Angular are really great at doing stuff on the client. For my Blog, however, I needed Server Side Rendering, because of SEO and per-page-headers. This is why I used NextJS for my blog. It supports serverside-components and serverside rendering. Because the initial render of the page happens on the server it is also quite fast, which was another benefit of using it.

Maybe it is not the first thing to expect after my story so far, but I like low-level languages a lot! The simple fact that they are fast is so mesmerizing. The memory management is fun. Everything is fun! For quite some time I wanted to develop something to simulate logic gates. But fast. Like, really, really fast. And many of them. Like thousands, hundreds of thousands of gates. This is why I started to develop BuildIT, an OpenGL software for simulating logic gates fast! It is not finished, but I spent a lot of time with it and really learned C++ in detail. I had to implement own functionality for rendering text, gui stuff and a lot, a lot more. multithreadding, logic gate simulation, the digital circuit board. Hundreds if not thousands of hours went into the project and I do not regret a minute of it!

The time has come for me to finally do what I have dreamed of for so many years! I'm studying computer sience! It is fun. Like I cannot describe how interesting everything is. I am so greatful to be able to learn all these different but beautiful things. It probably sounds like I'm exaggerating a bit, but I really mean it. I love it.