Petar Peychev
Hello, World!
The very first blog post, because one always needs to start somewhere.
Who am I?
My name’s Petar Peychev and I’m a Computer Science student at Nottingham Trent University and former Software Engineering student of SoftUni. I was born in a small fishing town called Tutrakan on the right bank of the Danube in Bulgaria.
Throughout my brief stay on this planet, I have been captivated by many seemingly unconnected ideas, gadgets and pursuits. My main activities revolve around the field of computer science, but I love exploration too much to exclusively specialise. Here’s a small subset of the things, which occupy my mind sometimes:
Mind ⊇ {chess, mathematics, phở, cellular automata, poetry, physics, ethics, psychology, mindfulness meditation, hip-hop, absurdism}
Why am I blogging?
People love lists. Here’s a list of reasons:
Learning by explaining One of the widely-known pieces of applied psychology is the fact that explaining something to others is a great way to learn. I intend to use this blog as an engine to drive my learning process, while simultaneously getting some content as a side effect.
Cultivating an online identity As having an online footprint is practically inevitable these days, especially for someone in my field, a personal blog is a tool one can use to curate their digital identity.
An outlet for miscellaneous thoughts With constantly getting distracted by new and exciting ideas, I often find myself struggling to find a place to store various thought nuggets. Tools, which have all served this purpose in my life before include Google Keep, physical journals, a frighteningly massive Google Docs file, and any friend who might listen. I hope to use the blog as another such outlet, where I can initially deposit ideas and eventually develop them into complete posts.
What kind of content can you expect?
My plan is to dedicate the majority of the content here towards computing-related topics, but still put out the occasional miscellaneous post. A rough balance, which I’ll strive towards is 80/20%. With my current obsession being programming languages and compilers/interpreters, related content will probably follow.