ABOUT

EnderLiquid

Software engineering undergraduate.
Java is my native programming language.

“What if I could make this idea real?”

That is how I keep starting things, for no particularly good reason. Predictably, I often end up with a half-finished project and lessons that may be worth more than the finished thing. Every now and then, though, I do manage to turn a passing idea into something that runs—and that other people can see.

Java gave me my first framework for understanding systems. As I work with other languages, I’m also learning to speak them with a little less of a Java accent.

Each time, only the voice within answers me, its echoes rippling like arpeggios across the empty sea of the mind. So I resolve, once again, to set sail in the boat of the unknowing, seeking a way through the storm toward the far shore of the unknowable. Until, once again, I strike the reefs of reality—or perhaps tear my own sails apart. Until, once again, I sink soundlessly to the seabed and am drawn back into the cycle.

Yet what does that matter? I remember vividly those star-filled nights when I shared the same sky with sailors of ancient Greece; I remember, too, the few times the glow of dusk welcomed me onto beaches I had only dreamed of.