Welcome, human! (hopefully)

AI for coding really is useful — I get it. But it has been taking away the pleasure I had while being challenged by the difficulty in computing.

I want to learn more about computer systems — like one always wants to learn more about their loved ones.

Since I will be taking my time to do it, I might as well share my experience with anyone interested by posting to this site.

The path

• Beej's Guide to C Programming
• Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
• Modern C
• Elixir in Action
• The BEAM Book: Understanding the Erlang Runtime System

Other resources

• MDN: Learn Web Development
• web.dev: Learn HTML
• web.dev: Learn CSS
• Eloquent JavaScript

My carry

• Secondhand Lenovo ThinkPad T480 with CachyOS
• Zed Editor

AI usage disclosure

This website is coded by hand (I know, you can tell) and all the content here is written by me.

Although that is true for the current address (joevtap.com), it will NOT be true for ai.joevtap.com.

That subdomain is for my experiments with coding with AI and should not be treated as my original work — I am responsible for everything there, of course.

But didn't you say you don't like AI?

No, I said it is useful, especially in the tech industry. For me, it didn't solve everything; my love for computing, for instance — that, only I can "solve".