About Me 😁

Junior dev with varied interests.

Still searching for a specialization I can commit to while maintaining widely applicable skills.

Currently familair with many aspects of front-end development, back-end development, and ops.

📫 How To Reach Me

Drop me an email at my username at Gmail or a DM on Twitter if you need something.

I can provide other contact details if needed when there's a reason.

💼 Employment Status

Currently employed and not searching for anything at the moment.

🔭 Stuff I’m Currently Working On

Mostly full-stack web projects that touch on different parts of the tech stack from the front-end to the back-end and ops.

Repositories

My repos have become a bit polluted with forks I plan to customize later but haven't gotten around to, among other things 😅 Acive stuff is listed here.

monorepo: https://github.com/RyanCargan/monorepo - Dumping ground for miscellaneous personal work.

nixos-desktop-config: https://github.com/RyanCargan/nixos-desktop-config - Configuration files for NixOS installation on local machine.

nixos-server-config: https://github.com/RyanCargan/nixos-server-config - Configuration files for NixOS installation on headless remote machine.

deployment-utils: https://github.com/RyanCargan/deployment-utils - Stuff to help with deploying current apps via GitHub actions.

💬 Stuff You Can Ask Me About

There's much I'm still learning, but I might be able to help if you need assistance with implementing full-stack projects that follow the Jamstack (Next.js + Directus) pattern.

Or if you just need general debugging/troubleshooting help with something tech-related (remote assistance through something like AnyDesk is an option).

👯 Stuff I’m Looking To Collaborate On

• PostCSS plugins
• 3D assets for use in React Three Fiber projects

🌱 Stuff I’m Currently Learning

• Web Development
  • Front-End
    • TamperMonkey (augmented browsing/site modding)
    • Zustand (state management, Redux DevTools)
    • Cannon.js (@react-three/cannon, 3D physics library)
    • React.js (2D rendering library)
      • React Three Fiber (3D rendering library based on Three.js & React.js)
      • Next.js (SSR)
    • PostCSS (CSS automation plugins, Sass support)
  • Back-End
    • Frameworks
      • Spring Boot
      • Laravel (with Composer dependency manager)
    • BaaS
      • Directus (SQL, REST, GraphQL, headless CMS, auth)
    • ORMs
      • Sequelize
      • Mongoose
  • Ops
    • Linux
    • Nix package manager
    • K3d
    • Devtron (CI/CD, DevOps in a box)
  • QA
    • JUnit, Jest, React Testing Library (unit & integration testing)
    • Chrome Puppeteer (E2E testing)
• 3D Modeling
  • Blender
    • Hard surface modeling
    • Retopology
    • Animation workflows

🤔 Stuff I’m Looking for Help With

• Architectural best practices for distributed systems
• Procedural generation techniques for 3D assets

⚡ Other Stuff That Sparks My Interest

• Computational statistics & machine learning
• Game development
• P2P networking

🎮 My Hobbies

• Tech
  • Game dev
    • Mostly a way to play around with and expand on mechanics I find interesting in games I play made by others.
• Writing
  • Creative writing
    • Mostly short stories (some of which may see the light of day soon).
• Art
  • 2D vector art
  • 3D modeling

Mainly playing around with automation techniques and procedural generation since I lack a traditional art background. Still leanring the essentials of perspective for 2D art, good topology for 3D (animated) art, and anatomy for both. I mostly practice with Bézier curves or CSS for 2D stuff, and poly modeling for 3D stuff. No plans to get into traditional 2D drawing or 3D sculpting anytime soon.