About
I’m a guy from Germany who goes by the name of Sascha Offe and has an interest in software programming, SciFi, music and other (geeky) topics.
The main reasons for me to maintain this space are…
- to create my own, but also shareable, knowledge base; to have various notes for my own benefit in one place.
- to provide a central hub for my endeavors.
- to train and improve my skills of writing (documentation) and other means of communication (in english).
- to function as a rubber ducking device, which in turn can also help with the aspect of “if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”.
Domain
Name: Well, the name saoe is short, was available as a domain, has a nice (lowercase) look to it,
and it has a personal connection: It’s the combination of the first and last letter of my given and family name.
The only downside: It’s not really meant for pronunciation, so I prefer to use it only in written form, or else will spell it out like an acronym.
Tech: This site used to be a made with “WordPress”, and while I didn’t have any real issues with it, I always thought it was a bit of overkill, with all the database and PHP stuff going on in the background for my small site. So I switched to “Hugo” (an open-source static-site generator) in 2019 and am very happy with it eversince.
My tools of the trade (my IT ecosystem)
Primary platform/operating system
Languages
Applications
These are the tools and utilities I currently use most often in relation to writing code/this website (there are of course more programs in use, some daily, some less frequently, but which are not specific to the before mentioned tasks):
- Notepad++
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (Community)
- CMake
- Doxygen
- Git
- Hugo
- SQLite + DB Browser for SQLite
- Qt
Elsewhere
Contact
📧︎ Via E-Mail: info@saoe.net.
(… in english or german, either one is fine.)