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My name, as you probably guessed, is Yves Sabourin.
I have started this Web site as a host for my coding projects, and may extend it to other uses in the future. To give you an idea of my age, my first experiences in programming were in Basic and Logo. During the pandemic, I found myself wanting to get into it again and I started learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I figured this was the easiest way, the trio being the language of the Web, to get projects out to the public quickly. The reason I code, primarily, is because I enjoy it.

I had downloaded a Commodore 64 Emulator a couple of years before and was surprised at how much Basic I remembered. And how much fun it was to imagine making the machine doing something, figuring out how to instruct the machine to do it and finally... watching the machine actually do what you had imagined. There is a magic to it for those who get bitten by that bug.

So I got back into it by first learning HTML, then doing CSS and styling, and finally got really into Javascript and getting a good grasp of the basics. You may notice the whole site looks a bit quaint; it has a certain 80s or 90s feel to it. I try to make things look good, but I insist, right now, on using no automated methods to build the site. Everything you see is coded line by line in either HTML, CSS or Javascript, with no additional libraries to the basic browser stuff. The main reason is I haven't learned any libraries. I've been concentrating on getting a good handle of basic Javascript. I don't know where I'm going next in coding, but now that I'm back into it, I certainly want to keep going. I'm looking into Python right now, of which I know a tiny bit. (Actually right now, my focus is on putting up and maintaining this site). The thing with programming/coding is once you start doing one thing well, it opens doors, but then you have start getting different devices and different languages to talk with one another... Anyway... you know...

So this site basically exists for the love of coding and maybe some literary projects and a blog about coding later on. I haven't invented the wheel in any of my code, if you want to see how I did something and learn from it and/or use it, feel free to use the old 'ctrl U'. It's all basic textbook stuff. If you have the "Web Development for dummies" - I have the 3 in one - you can find most of what I've done. Of course, I've had to come up with my own solutions to some things, but it's a combination of basics, which is, I understand, the best way to go in general. Feel free to roam. Be aware that I may change things around without notice. This is still very much a site in construction and as I learn new things, I may do different stuff to the pages.

Be aware however, that while my code is open source, the artistic concepts are subject to copyright. And obviously, blog articles are subject to copyright. For the code, in some cases, I don't mind, in specific cases, I have artistic copyright pending on the project. The larger projects, generally, the Time Machine, in Particular, I claim artistic ownership of. The processes, the code itself, though... everybody learns from reading other people's code at some point. If you want to use something and you're not sure how and if you should, please e-mail and ask. Imitation is, after all, the sincerest form of flattery. Check on the individual pages for details. And being recognized for one's work is always nice in any case.