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Hey there, my name is in that big colourful box up there and welcome to my site!
You've found my little corner of the internet! I'm a 21 year old programming dork based out of Toronto, and I'm currently going to school at the University of Waterloo. I like to build cool stuff, learn how to build cool stuff, and work at jobs where I get to build cool stuff.
Here's me at a glance:
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{
name: "Leander Rodrigues",
age: 21,
school: "University of Waterloo",
program: {
spec: "Nanotechnology",
faculty: "Engineering"
},
location: "Toronto, Canada",
gradYear: 2021,
isAvailableForHire: false
}
I don't exactly have a normal background in programming, but that's the problem best part about being self-taught, you gotta learn new things c o n s t a n t l y.
At the moment, I'm super into web development, but I've worked on game development (Unity) and mobile development (iOS/Android) at some previous co-op jobs!
As for this fancy, schmancy site, I write some things, take some notes, and sometimes build stuff. If you like what you see, and decide I've passed the first gauntlet, check out my digi-resume or shoot me a message and I'll get back to you ASAP!
After all those explosions, I've finally finished re-watching the Infinity Saga's films (2008-2019). Here's the definitive list for how those movies compare against one another, with some helpful tiers as well.
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The finale to my blog post trilogy. Phase 3 is by far the biggest and I got some shit to say about a few of these films. Another friendly reminder, these aren't opinions -- they're objective truths.
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Finished up reviewing Phase 1, time to take on Phase 2. Just a reminder about these posts, they're literally only facts. I try my best not to include any subjective opinions in these posts.
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I decided to spent my valuable quarantine time binge watching the MCU movies in release date order. I plan on ranking them eventually, but for now I'm just reviewing them one by one, starting with the first phase. This post contains facts, and little to no opinions.
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I'm sure a 'beginner's guide' indicates that have some sort of authority but that's just silly. I don't actually know what I'm talking about, but I just started playing DnD 5e, and I want to talk about it
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My personal review of The Last of Us Part II. It might be biased, it's probably wrong, but it's genuinely what I think of the game and how I've been thinking of it these past few days.
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Yep, we finally went through with it and released a podcast. Were still amateur, and not that funny, or interesting or good, so you probably shouldn't listen to it.
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You know how sometimes, links are like way too long and ugly for you to even want to click them. Well I had that problem too, and spent far too long building a web app for a solution. Gotta say though, this guy is pretty nice ππ.
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An online store where you can buy overpriced street wear and even post your own products for sale! Made with a hyper modern stack, with actual credit card processing! I even wrote some tests for this bad boy. πStay Freshπ
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Oh man, Jordine gave me this really cool poster for my birthday with 100 different classic films on it as scratch-off tiles. Boy howdy am I excited to demolish this thing.
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A pun that evolved into an actual project. Do you get it? Pre-Vue-r! Because It's built in Vue.js! I thought of it in the shower, and built it out in a day ππ
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A helpful command-line tool I published to the NPM registry which allows you to interact with some of Twitter's functionality without touching a web browser.
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Have you ever wanted to learn how to turn spin up a Minecraft server from your old laptop, or even just a separate terminal? It's surprisingly out of the box, just follow these steps!
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A pretty one-to-one clone of Hacker News with accounts, posting, and voting. Built entirely from scratch, without any template/starter files!
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A simple demo game I built while trying to learn Unity along with C#. It was exported to use the Unity Web Player via WebGL and honestly, I gotta say it looks pretty spicy - ππ₯π
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A zero-player game evolution game to simulate Conway's Game of Life. Best part: Dark mode!
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A catalog of delicious restaurants for you to view, review and add to! It's built with Node, and serves templated views directly from the server! π΄π₯Hope you're hungryπ₯π
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