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About Me

My name is Kristian, I'm from a small town in the tristate area in Denmark.

My passion for learning languages led me to study Chinese in Southern China, where I've been living for the past decade.

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Languages

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Danish

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English

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Mandarin

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Cantonese

Teaching

I teach Python and web development fundamentals, where my main focus is for my students to get their hands on the keyboard.

I believe in closing the mental gap between code on a machine and the real world as fast as possible.

My Coding Journey

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Godot

After making games with the Godot game engine for a while, I detoured to learn Python to understand some of the more programatically complex aspects of game dev.

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Python

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Raspberry Pi

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Git

I got started learning Python with "How To Automate The Boring Stuff with Python".

One of my first attempts in automating a task started out simple enough... until scope creep hit me.

This ended up as one of my largest projects.

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HTML

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CSS

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Javascript

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Figma

With Python, I was able to provide solutions to everyday problems. The issue was, that no one could understand it without an interface.

I decided to switch to web development, providing a familiar environment for my users.

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Node

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React

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Next

After powering through the basics, I confidently jumped into React and Next soon after.

I struggled in this space for quite a while, feeling a bit stuck between building normal websites, but getting into of databases, and the sleuth of new technologies there is to learn in connecting front and backend.

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SCSS

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Tailwind

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Astro

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Typescript

Astro was the framework I had been looking for. Building static sites with a javascript framework, and possibility of adding React was unbeatable to me.

Here I gained the confidence to learn Typescript and Tailwind and much more.

Astro has been my home base ever since.

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SQL

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Auth

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C#

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.NET

I chose C# and .NET Core to explore different types architectures and get a more comprehensive grasp on full-stack development.

How I Learn

When you choose to live in China, you also choose to live with a different internet than the rest of the world.

China has censored most of western media, social media and more. This means that I'm dependent on a VPN to visit Google, YouTube, Reddit, or where ever people go to learn and network in this field.

While conditions have created more hurdles than most beginners have to go through, it's the same conditions that has also strengthened my views on performance, privacy, and unnecessarily connecting to data with iframes or Google Fonts.

Podcasts

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    Syntax

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    Dataklubben

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    Darknet Diaries

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    Compressed

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    HTML All The Things

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    Web Rush

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    General Musings

Youtube

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    Fireship

  • Net Ninja podcast cover art

    Net Ninja

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    Coding In Public

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    Kevin Powell

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    Freecodecamp

  • Network Chuck podcast cover art

    Network Chuck

  • The Website Architect podcast cover art

    The Website Architect

Communities

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    Reddit

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    Wechat

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    Discord

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    DEV