About Popirex

Me

Since the first time I came in touch with an Arduino I completely fell in love with programming. The amount of creative expression some lines of code can give you is IMMENSE. As a regular Gen Z I have always been in contact with the internet, but I had never made a webpage until the most recent years of my life; and well, since the first page, it has always made me really happy to be a creator on the web (even with 0 recognition). Just being able to write whatever I want, and having the opportunity to actually see it on the web is so cool in my opinion I can't get enough of it.

My Web Making Journey

When I started University I came in touch with p5.js for the first time, and well from that point on I HAD to keep making simulations just for the fun of it. And there my first somewhat useful page was born, called "Exploring Code" - it contains the three simulations I am most proud of, all made just for the sake of curiosity.

The second page I ever made was for my brother. He had just renovated his old apartment to put it on Airbnb, so I felt it was a good occasion to make him a website that acted like a brochure for the house. It's probably the page I spent most of my time making since it has many connected pages and some (like the activities page) took a long time to make.

The third page, one for which I am VERY proud of, is the 'Light Transmission Simulation', made with a friend of mine for a statistics and probability exam. The objective of the project was to create a presentation with all the calculations and diagrams deducted from data obtained by mathematical simulations about a bunch of photons in a fiber optic cable. We obviously decided that it was too boring to just create a PowerPoint presentation full of numbers; we actually wanted everyone to be able to see what our project was about and how it worked and be like "Oh okay this makes sense!". So the project went from a few hours of work to about a week of full day programming, but it was all worth it. Our teacher was very proud and we had something to share also with our friends and family.

The "Gattati" page was made in one day, just because I had just learned how to actually use the PHP language to make requests and I wanted to make use of what I had learned. It's a very simple page, but as long as it can make my friends have a laugh for me it was totally worth it. I also want to make a recognition for the cataas API that made all of this possible, fantastic work!! Check out the Cataas API

The last page (except the one you are looking at) is the Phonebook Database page. It's purely theoretical because I use the actual database to keep organized all my contacts and obviously I don't want any of my friends and family phone numbers to be free on the web. In any way that page was born to make a sort of 'presentation' of the work you have to make in order to idealize, make a scheme of and build a functional database. I had a lot of fun making it since it has an actual use in the real world and it's not just a theoretical project.