ABOUT CRANE

hello

hey there, my name is crane. this site is simple, but it's my core site that should tie together all my other projects.

i suppose i am a freelance developer. my knowledge and experience centers around fullstack web development at this point, but i am also greatly interested in game and software design. overall, i'm really passionate about creating either an entertaining experience or a useful tool. i hope that many of my sites are both these things!

backstory

i grew up spending a lot of time with computers and internet, and it's hard to trace back to my very first experience with html/css, or even code in general. when i was little, modding minecraft and maintaining homemade minecraft servers were my favorite hobbies, while simultaneously the bane of my existence. more formally, scratch and arduino were some of my first interactions with computer science.

in the late 2010's i began to mess around with html and css to build character profiles on toyhouse. this was an interesting experience, as i was limited to only using inline css at the time. toyhouse, however, offers usage of bootstrap. this was maybe the first time i was properly introduced to the idea of a framework in programming.

in 2022, i created my first discord bot, cranebot, using python. to this day, cranebot is my pride and joy, and it has gone through an incredible amount of restructures since its first iterations. i feel a lot of pride for cranebot because of what working on it has taught me about modularization and oop.

in 2023, i began building wormboy3 on neocities. i talk about the experience more on the linked page, but it was my first proper experience with javascript (outside of helping friends with their own webprojects before i had any clue what i was doing) and a proper web development setup. wormboy3 is still my space to experiment and try out miscellaneous webdev ideas.

later that year, with wormboy3, i created the friends of cranebot webring. this webring is still pretty small, as it's just my friends and i, but building the api behind the ring was a really fun first deployment of back-end code. it fueled a lot of my passion for webprojects, and taught me the basics of http requests and responses.

school

i began studying computer science in 2021 at my community college, and left in 2024 when all computer science programs at my school were cut. i learned more in my own time, but appreciate the guidance of a couple 200-level classes i took.