erikwalther.eu

I built this site to learn. I'm working through boot.dev's Back-end Developer Path in Python and TypeScript, partly because my security studies on Hack The Box kept running into JavaScript I couldn't properly review. I figured the logical fix was to actually learn to write code, not just read it.

Django felt like the right challenge. It is a real production framework, and building something with it forces you to make real decisions rather than following a tutorial into a toy project. Setting it up properly, hardening it, and deploying it myself was the whole point.

Since I was building something real anyway, I wanted to do it with the things I genuinely find fascinating: privacy, security, and SEO. On the surface they can seem unrelated, but they share the same underlying logic. All three are about being intentional, understanding how systems work, and thinking carefully about what you expose and to whom. Getting that balance right is what interests me.

This site is where I apply that in practice.