Hello, i’m Yev 👋

My full name is Evgeniy Nekrasov, but everyoone just call me Yev. I was born in Kyrgyzstan and have been chasing pixels, ideas, and new horizonts evere since.

First Byte - Kyrgyzstan, early 2000s

Picture a Pentium II, a 10-12 year old boy, and the unmistakable screech of a 56k modem connection…

HERE NOICE

I played a couple of DOS games, doodled in MS Paint, and didn’t event think how all of these is working. Just was enjoing the content.

Café clicks - Bulgaria 2003

My family moved to Bulgaria, and my only computer time was in smoky cybercafés whatever my friends and i battled demons in Diablo II. School somehow skipped IT classes altogether, so computers stayed a hobby, not a subject.

New life - Spain, 2007

Next stop, Spain. High school ‘informatics’ arrived just as i was still decoding Spanish language, so very little stuck. I shelved tech and explored everething else - studying Fine arts in Bulgaria, Ephemeral Architecture, Product Design in Spain, and working every job from waiter to over-land freight traffic manager.

The accidental “Hello World”

Fast-forward to the COVID-19 lockdown. Over coffe with a friend, the questrion dropped: Ever tried programming? I hadn’t, by why no? I installed Python, opened a Spyder IDE, and typed:

print("Hello World")

I was not love from first sign xD - every tiny change broke my things and the syntax felt alien. But curiosity make people send and machine to Mars and i keeped poking around xD.

Butterflies in the Browser

The spark came when i touched front-end code. A scrappy bit of HTML, some bvery broken CSS, and a one-line main.js

console.log("this is a string");

Suddenly the browser responded, and i felt those “butterflies in the stomach”. Ideas flooded in faster that i could type.

Bootcamp to backlog

I dove into a bootcamp and just in time i finished it i landed my first role as a develop/designer. Now i’m sampling every tech stack i can find-C, Rust, C#, Assembly, EcmaScript, and much more xD Love evertything.

Why this blog exist

This space is my digital lab note:

  • Experiments that works (and plenty that don’t)
  • Note on tools, languages, and workflows
  • Reflections
  • Resources i wish someone had handled me on day one.

If you’re a curious soul, a career-changer, or just nostalgic for the hiss of dial-up, you’ll feel right at home here. Thanks for reading.

  • Yev