Welcome to My Learning Journal

I’ve never been someone who loved writing.

Unless I was taking notes, messy and fragmented notes, on whatever I happened to be studying at the time. However, I loved reading great writing… but I couldn’t produce it.

With a newfound drive to return to coding, I realised something important:

If I truly wanted to learn, I needed to document the process.

So, here we are.

I don’t know if this will work. But I do know one thing—
if I can teach it, I can learn it better.

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Why Writing? Why Blogging?

The idea of blogging has always intrigued me—especially through the lens of copywriting, digital marketing, and direct-response advertising.

The ability to influence someone from behind a screen is mind-bending.

It’s a skill that’s existed for as long as advertising itself, and organisations pay serious money for people who can do it well.

Great marketers build sales funnels.
Elite copywriters then bring those funnels to life using nothing but words.

It’s a rare skill.
But it’s also one that can be trained.

I’ve always known I had a creative side, yet I lacked the vocabulary—and the grammatical confidence—to write at a copywriter’s level.

What I wanted was simple:

To write as well as I read…
and use that skill to speak to people online through valuable content.

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The Learning Problem

Coding is vast.

Massive, actually.

There’s an overwhelming amount of information you’re expected to understand—if not outright memorise. And while I’d consider myself fairly good at recalling information, I knew this approach wouldn’t scale.

I needed a better system.

Something that would let me stop passively taking notes and start actively thinking.

That’s when the idea hit me:

A learning journal.

Interestingly enough, the concept was introduced to me back in university—but I’ll be honest… I was always “on road” (nothing illegal 😄).

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Writing, Speaking, and Sales

Here’s the kicker:

We can only write as well as we can speak.

Spending years in sales helped me more than I realised. The only real difference between speaking and writing?

You can iterate through writing.
You can’t do that with speech.

That insight alone made something click for me:

Improving my writing would inevitably improve my speaking.

And that’s a win on every front.

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Why Blog About Coding?

I’m an entry-level coder—barely—with around 12 months of independent research, not including my formal studies.

There’s no chance I’ll remember everything.

So instead, I blog.

By doing deep dives into topics I’m learning, I force my brain to connect ideas—to fire neurons together.

“Neurons that fire together, wire together.”
— Norman Doidge ¹

In simpler terms:
If I can break something down to its most granular level and then teach it, I’ll retain it.

And writing about it is using the information in one sense.

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You may have already stumbled across my modest GitHub or Portfolio and have a general idea of what I’m working on. Still, I wanted this post to serve as a starting point—especially for those landing here via social media or shared links.

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What You’ll Find Here

Most posts on my blog will fall into one of the following categories:

• Full-Stack Development
• Ethical Hacking
• News & Updates

Yes—there are plenty of blogs that already cover these topics.

But this one?
This is primarily for me.

I need to revisit concepts. Explain them in different ways. Ask and answer the right questions. Learn them again—properly.

I’ll also be documenting Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges and ethical hacking practices to better understand how systems are secured—and how they fail.

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If you stick around, read the posts, and share feedback—I’d genuinely appreciate it.

This journal isn’t about perfection.
It’s about progress.

Let me know you’re thoughts!

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Footnote

1. Norman Doidge – The Brain That Changes Itself ↩︎