THE RUSSO BLOCK

It surprising to think that this website of mine has been such a long project and required so much of myself, especially considering this most recent (and definitely final) version of The Russo Block only took about two weeks to create. For close to two years The Russo Block has been my perpetual pet project in what felt like a never-ending cycle of development, deferral, and subsequent forgetfulness. Yet somehow I managed to get it out to the world. I proudly present to you, The Russo Block, and I sincerely hope you enjoy your visit.

Acknowledgements

The Russo Block would have never seen the light of day without the greatly appreciated feedback from my friends and family. In particular I would like to thank Matthew Martinez for acting as my resident English major and ad hoc editor and Sarah Merante for the beautiful 'doodles' adorning the desktop and tablet views of the website. I would also like to thank the CSU Bakersfield's web development team and Edwin Gonzalez for helping foster my web development skills. I'm incredibly grateful to all of you. Thank you.

A Brief Recollection

Beginning in my 'Intro to Web Development' course at CSUB The Russo Block has always floated around on my list of to-dos and WIP projects. I would chip away at concepts pages, practice Javascript, research styling methods, and a week later scrap it all to start from scratch. What you're seeing now is probably the fifth iteration of this website worth any form of credit.

Once I began work at CSUB's web development department I quickly began to grasp how inefficient my 'do it yourself' approach of development really was. Entire teams had poured countless hours of development into more resilient libraries, why not leverage those instead? At CSUB Web Dev I was introduced to VueJS which lead me to NuxtJS, the framework The Russo Block is now built upon. The Russo Block has now completed its metamorphasis from a brightly colored, fragile accessibility nightmare to a more tame and ergonomic web site.

Looking Forward

I get ahead of myself. This post may come across as rather ceremonious for a personal website and even more so considering this is only one of the first posts. So then allow me to highlight some of what's to come. Expect a notes post outlining some advice I have for creating a personal web site such as The Russo Block and later a projects post on optimizing, benchmarking, and denoising an algorithm in Rust with an interactive web assembly component.

With The Russo Block now complete I have a personalized outlet for my many projects, essays, and tidbits of life that I can't wait to share. There will be software, there will be circuits, there will be cats! Stay tuned on LinkedIn for new posts. Until then!