hi, im mark

a UCD CS grad
exploring roles in SWE while working on personal projects.
i make YT videos and play games for fun

coding
work ↘

Monopoly Clone

learning to leverage Web Sockets for real-time multiplayer gameplay

VALORANT Tracker

progress towards creating professional user interfaces

Coffee Ecommerce Page

practice implementing the full ecommerce flow: products -> cart -> checkout

AI T-shirt Platform

Genkit + Printavo integration. built a RESTFUL API from scratch, connecting two services

Goals ↘

be a youtuber

get really good at the piano. most of my favorite songs are beautiful on the piano, and i'd love to learn how to play them

hang out w friends more and be a fun person to be around

right now on YT i post videos about valorant and how i'm getting better. i would love to turn this into a stream later on. my final goal is to be able to post about how i go from beginner -> intermediate in different hobbies i want to pursue like piano, go-karting, working on cars etc. i would want to do this in a cinematic kind of style.

Recent Thoughts ↘

you can't steer a ship that isnt moving. it's so much faster to iterate publicly (and do things suboptimally)
than to run it through your own mental model 50 times (just to never do it anyways). perfectionism is just so useless a lot of the time.