Joe Lawrence

About Me

I am a software engineer with a passion for DIY, sustainability, and telling stories. I love to learn new technologies and improve my skills. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, reading, and spending time with my family.

This is a personal website where I share my projects, thoughts, and experiences. Feel free to explore and connect with me!

A Few of My Favorite Things

  • Practicing my skills with programming and development.
  • Fine tuning my Linux workstation.
  • Reading books (My favorite genres are Sci-fi/Fantasy, Philosophy, Religion, and History).
  • Running tabletop RPGs with my friends.

My Projects

Tiny Cottage

I am building my own tiny house on top of a wooden trailer! The finished product will have an English cottage style and a two-story floor plan.

My Website

This is my living website! This website is built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS. I am using it to learn more about web development, practice my writing, and share my projects and thoughts with the world. It will remain a continual work in progress as I add more features and content.

Books I'm Reading

  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • The Making of the Fittest by Sean B. Carroll
  • Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu

The Greatest Websites of All Time

These websites inspire me to bring knowledge, utility, and joy to people's lives, as they have to mine.

  • Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia is the most extensive democratic institution of knowledge ever devised, available to everyone on earth(when it isn't being censored), and has become more factually accurate over time.
  • The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. The archive also hosts the Wayback Machine, which holds a record of backup instances of over 916 billion webpages.
  • Anna's Archive is a non-profit dedicated to the the preservation of and universal access to knowledge and culture. They "preserve books, papers, comics, magazines, and more, by bringing these materials from various shadow libraries, official libraries, and other collections together in one place."
  • Internet Sacred Texts Archive is "the largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web."