Hello Everyone !
I'm glad you're reading this article. In this article I will introduce myself and tell a little bit of my story, so that perhaps people who might be in the same place as me get a hope for brighter times.
So Who the heck am I ?
My name is Luftie, I'm an ex-Fullstack Web Developer, a strong advocate of privacy and currently focus on moving into cryptography and blockchain-architecture (not smart-contracts). I'm born 2005, I started my software-development journey severely in Jan 2023, making my first attempts back 2022, though because my english level was insufficient to learn from english tutorials I spent a bit of time fixing that bug 🪲.
I learned quite a bit of web-development and most of my journey was devoted for a start-up that I built throughout 2 years, maintaining school commitments, dropping out from university etc. However back 2023 and 2024 there have been occurances (related to my family), many of them that held me back, impacted my mental-health leading into depression.
2025 and huge changes in my life !
Although 2025, I access as some break-through moment in my life, because I dropped out from uni to focus finish the start-up project, I paid my mom from my savings and gain on Trump-Pump upfront for a living 1 year and learning, doing what I really want to develop myself, and although I failed my start-up one/two month(s) after dropping out, I do not regret it. I moved to completely different IT-field than web-dev industry (namely smart-contracts development) and I have been putting a lot of effort to fully focus only on my personal development, I missjudged how much time will the thoughts, guilt and weakness feelings haunt me. Especially as I didn't cry throughout 2 years long, because I learnt to withstand crying, in 2025 I burst.
In February 2025, I decided I want to move to smart-contracts development. I did that, because I was interested in blockchain from architectural point of view and also have dreamt about learning cryptography and building my own cryptocurrency back 2022/23, as I didn't even had clue about architecture of blockchain.
After having started with writing smart-contracts on EVM, I joined a lot of events (which for me as an INTP person was back then exceptional and ultra rare, I had feared even to go to the checkout with real human in some fast-food restaurant) and connected with a lot of people in the space from many occupations (HR, Marketing, Developers, Legal and so on).
I also had a period of being an ambassador by an RWA start-up in Poland called Deep Ocean House.
I actually created 4/5 personal projects (some of them quite advanced), learned on the smart contract security-practices,got acquainted with internal mechanisms of Ethereum namely the consesus protocol (Casper FFG and GHOST LMD).
I learnt a lot, met a lot of phenomenal people. And from March to August, it seemed I can do everything that the bad times are gone, unfortunately from 31st August/1st September I have fallen recursively into depressive states again and tried to handle the pressure again, simultaneously maintaining my development. I somehow managed to finish 2 projects until the end of the year (custom crypto-wallet and a collateral-backed stablecoin with cross-chain ability).
Start of 2026 and what happened ?
In 2026, I was trying to find a job as a smart-contract junior or even get on an intern, but to be honest it where more of hectic and desperate applications. Because I was so down with coding, doing web-dev and really felt bored (not because of difficulty or challenges, but because of the fact it was not genuinely what I want to do and I faced to many commitments at once).
By the end of January I decided that on October I will comeback to uni and to start from scratch the cryptography course done by Professor Christof Paar, that I had started back in end of August but did not finish it up, due to my confusion about my career, purpose and started building projects.
After finishing that course, I realized:
Well, this is really what keeps me enjoyed, keeps me sitting on the chair in front of my desk.
As I said before cryptography for me was already back 2023 a topic I wanted to delve into but unfortunately, because I sucked at maths at high-school I thought I cannot learn it.
The last entire week I have been trying to plan building structure for a project that would include web3 applications together with ZK and honestly then I realized how burned out I'm with web-dev and that I need to focus only on ONE THING master it and use other things as tools or addition, not as field of mastery. Being fullstack is a huge advantage, but also a curse, because at least I have got into a point, where I tried to define the logic and structure and build the mock-up and so on.
The reason might sound obvious, though for someone like me who is really into IT-world in many areas, who is interested in cybersec, hardware, web-dev, smart-contracts, cryptography, game-dev suddenly appeared either, I said to myself:
OK IT'S ENOUGH. I'M FED UP AS NEVER BEFORE. I DO NOT WANT TO FAIL EVERY SINGLE TIME I DO SOMETHING, BUILD SOMETHING. THIS IS NOT THE LIFE I WANT. Either you pick yourself up after all these experiences you faced and select the field of expertise you want to have, or you will be leaping like a frog from lilly-pad to lilly-pad. And you will be never build great things.
I was considering my path where to go, what to do and I browsed my notes from 2025 about entering blockchain, then I reminisced myself the actual reason why I entered smart-contracts development. It was never about EVM it's self or about developing something on it, it was about understanding the depth of the EVM.
So what am I gonna do at DEV.TO and why I selected this platform ?
Firstly I genuinely puke on social media and avoid using it.
I'm fed up with the narrative provided there, trolls, the venom/acid coming out of people and I shun from any activity in social media. Though for my new beginning and to increase the presence in the space, I came to a conclusion that it would not be a bad idea to share my work with devs for devs and not only, and thus I have chosen dev.to. There is not much politics involved, no financial matters so much overfilled and there are not so many guys who pose to be a rich guys like on Linkedin, whereas they're not.
So on this platform I'm going to share with you some of my progress from recent weeks, what have I been doing or I will mention some specific topics like how SHA-256 works in detail.
I reckon, I will do it weekly or bi-weekly, it's yet to be estimated. I also do not seek a lot of out reach like suddenly 1000 likes or interactions, I rather seek a place where I can share my knowledge with savvy people that are curious to learn and also in case of my mistake I expect to be revised :D
So that's it for today from my side. See you in a week time !
Top comments (1)
Great introduction! Can't wait to see your developments!