Me

Hello, I’m Sascha, a guy from Northern Germany with an interest in software programming, SciFi, music and other (geeky) topics.

The main reasons for me to maintain this space are…

to create a personal and 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”.

Contact:: Via E-Mail: info@saoe.net (in english or german, either is fine)
Elsewhere:: BitBucket.org: saoe
GitLab.com: saoe
StackOverflow.com

Site

Domain Name:: Well, the name saoe is short, was available, has a nice (lowercase) look to it, and has a personal connection:
It’s the combination of the first and last letter of my given name and surname, respectively.
The only downside: It’s not really meant for pronunciation, so I prefer to use it only in written form, or alternatively will spell it out like an acronym.
Tech:: It started as a “WordPress” site in early 2013, and while I didn’t have any real issues with it, I always thought that it was overkill for the needs of my small site (database and PHP stuff).
Therefore I switched to a static website in early 2019 (generated with “Hugo)”, and am very happy with it eversince (see the history page for more details).

(Preferred) Tools

Primary platform/operating system

Microsoft Windows

Programming 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):