Hola and welcome to my internet property!
This is my personal website where I post about things I’m building, learning, or really anything I am interested in. The main purpose of my blog posts is for my own motivation to write, so as to retain things that I learn, and super extra bonus if it also helps someone else in any way!
My name is Diego Armstrong, I am Canadian-Panamanian 🇨🇦🇵🇦, I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and I am a die hard Koi Sushi fan.
I am currently enrolled at UBC, where I am pursuing a major in Environmental Engineering and a minor in Computer Science. With this mix, I hope to pursue a fun career developing battery technology for a more sustainable future. I absolutely love the outdoors and want to do what I can to help mitigate future climate change.
This website is generated using my very own static site generator! (written in Rust )
All content is written in Obsidian (markdown), and all the aesthetics are configured in a TOML file, then it is automatically converted into HTML and CSS. I did it this way to prioritize simplicity in website editing, so that I can very quickly create new blog posts and very easily change the aesthetics. I already love using Obsidian for technical documentation, journaling, notetaking, etc., so I figured it’d be nice to also write blog posts here.
Also, I have had an itch to learn Rust properly for a long time and I figured this would be a fun and simple enough project to gain some fluency in the language.
I do not use AI to write any of my blog posts. I promise you are reading something written by an actual human, not by an LLM, so you won’t come across characters that are not on my keyboard or an overuse of emojis to come across as human.
I do not use AI to generate/write any of my code for personal projects At work, deadlines have adjusted to the development speed that LLM’s enable; however, when the intent is to learn things deeply, I find that LLM’s simply get in the way unless used for purely conceptual discussion.