I'm a CS master's student who spends most of my time either fighting the borrow checker in Rust, getting segfaults in C++, or gently bullying a neural network in PyTorch until it does what I want. I started in web and backend dev, so occasionally I remember how to make a button, but mostly I just like being uncomfortably close to the hardware. It's a whole personality. I'm aware.
I haven't started posting anything yet, but it's coming, and the plan is to build in public and show the unglamorous truth: the bugs, the three-hour detours, the moments of staring at a stack trace like it personally wronged me. Everything online looks so clean and finished, and I'm convinced it's a conspiracy to make the rest of us feel bad. So consider this my contribution to the cause: proof that someone out here is also confused, also googling the same error for the fourth time, and somehow still having fun.