Professional direction
This autumn I am attending a three month long course at Malmö Yrkeshögskola in content creation with AI. I have been a little hesitant about AI but decided to dive in and see how AI can help me be more productive. So far I've found the most value in asking ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot to help me learn languages. This works really well when asking them to explain concepts or even creating small drills for me to practice with.
Learning to code
I started coding a personal site in Neocities to practice my HTML and CSS skills last spring and have now roughly finished coding the layout and design my new portfolio site.
I am also writing some more UX case studies to add there, in parallel with designing the site.
The urge to start learning PHP to make the site more dynamic and easy to update was too strong to resist and now I am slightly obsessed, deep down the rabbit hole of learning PHP. I love learning new languages! Whether it's Modern Greek or a coding language, and have decided to allow myself to follow this passion for a period of time. The challenge is that it takes up a lot of time and focus but I do believe knowing a bit of PHP is a valuable skill to have.
I've realised that maintaining the Neocities site manually is getting laborious so now the next step is to figure out how Static Site Generators work and creating new themes for them. I am working to see if I can get the hang of Hugo, which is built with Golang.
Current location
I am based in Norway after some years of moving here and there between countries (the UK and Greece).