I created my first blog when I was 12, mostly because my dad’s a journalist and columnist (and human rights activist), and I guess it rubbed off on me. It was nothing fancy — just a place where I could dump whatever random stuff I found interesting and thought others might like too.
That’s also when I started getting into programming, and honestly, things got pretty hectic. I kept meaning to update the blog, but… well, you know how it goes. The desire to write never really went away though.
Fast forward to MIT. I was convinced I’d build a proper website in my first semester. Then I discovered what “drinking from the firehose” actually meant, and that plan got shelved real quick.
When this semester started about a month ago, I finally bought this domain – partly to force my own hand. I literally put “make barish.me” on my todo list for the next day. Classic MIT move: every single day I had to push it back another day. But hey, it finally happened!
I’m going to try keeping things simple here and just write whenever I can. Probably mostly about software stuff, but hopefully other random things too. You know those moments when you have what feels like a brilliant idea and think “I should really write this down”? Yeah, I never do. Maybe having this site will actually make me follow through for once.