Good morning everyone, I did not in the depths of creating a profile, yet. But I want to start with my blog! I am computer science student and also part of the NEAR community for quite some time. I was interested to create developer identity, and here I am. I am rynzaro. I love NEAR, and that's why I will start this blog here. I am not really good at programming, yet, and also I am not the most knowledgeable about the technical side of crypto. Therefor I wanna document my journey here - as a reference point for potential employers, to connect to the developer community and to have something to look back to in a few months or years and see how far I have come. #### Where I am right now I have gone through the web development course of harvard, which was great. Also I am learning Solidity for a university project and I have basicall with 3 other finished my first blockchain project: You can mint an NFT, this NFT can be used to mint some voting tokens and these tokens can only be used for votings on a voting contract. Basically created three smart contracts fort one little use-case. Because I was curious how ERC20 and ERC721 tokens work, this was maybe not the best way to do it, but it was a way to let me dive into both of thsoe creations. It was a lot of fun! #### Where I want to go next I feel like I have a lot to learn, and you cannot really go without having Web2 - skills. Also I will be honest - **I need to earn money** - so maybe I will not land in the NEAR ecosystem in the first place. Or not full-time. We will see. My next step would be: - Learn Javascript at more depth - Create a website which works as a portfolio - Learning Solidity at more depth - Making an internship in some blockchain company - Learn Rust - Join NEAR as a paid developer in some team Before that, I want to test my skills through small contributions to the community. I do want to build something with which you can display the feed of a discord channel in near.social for example. #### Why a blog? As I said, I love NEAR, it's vision, values and the community. I want to connect and I want to get **honest** feedback (I like word I can improve on more than pats on the back :) ) - so I hope I can get better at writing, coding and networking, to be able to excite more people for my blog and in turn excite more people for NEAR. So we can actually make a sustainable living being on the blockchain we love most. Also I want to increase my knowlege about other chains and figure out, what they are doing well and educate others along the way in a (hopefully) concise form (not my strongest trait lol) **NEARs simplicity is one of its biggest advantages** and I want to contribute to that. I want to develop myself and my skills in an inspiring, inclusive and hard working environment. I look forward getting to know you all. If you made it until here, thank you! Have a great day (where are the emojis at btw?)