Who am I?

Dear beloved reader 👋,

My name is Menno Van Zoelen a 17 y/o dutch boy living near Rotterdam. Currently I am studying at het Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam, where I am following the course Creative Software Developer.

At the moment for school I am working mainly with HTML, CSS & JS However in the future that might change depending on what I choose to do within the course. I could choose to study UI/UX which is mostly designing and creating the interfaces people use or I could choose IoT which stands for Internet of Things which has everything to with micro-computers, printers, routers and much more.

But I think I already know which direction to go, Advanced Programming with this direction you will dive deeper into programming languages and learn different programming like Java or any programming language you want to learn.

Do you have any hobbies?

Yes I have two hobbies programming, and helping people, especially when it is about privacy. When I am not programming for school I am probably working on my personal website the one you are on right now. While I like privacy I don't believe I have any at all, actually no one has but that's wrong in my opinion, I think that Google, Microsoft and Facebook are the worst offenders of violating users privacy and have, in my opinion negative influence on the internet as a whole.

Some personal things

I am an introverted person with autism, which means I am not very good at socializing with people nor do I like attention, except when you're already my friend or family. But regardless of that I always try to be nice even if they are not nice to me. There is also one word you should absolutely not say when I am arround if you have a good reason, which is "cancer".

One "goal" I have is to become an ethical hacker, which is a person who hacks for good and not for bad, they help companies to find vulnerabilities in their systems and then we report those vulnerabilities to the company so they can fix it.

I actually do not really like to go to school, I think it is a necessary evil, while yes I like to learn new things I think that the way the school system is set up is not the best way to learn things.

And the last thing is... I really like cats, I had one cat when my dad moved to Belgium he got lost. J: I do miss him a bit, his name was Thor, here's two pic's of him:

Other things

I have a sister, she is 19 years old and is also studying at het Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam, she is also following the course Creative Software Developer. And she has her own website too, you can find it at astralvrz.github.io.