Welcome to the notebook

Hello there,

If you are reading this, welcome to my website — and to the first page of this notebook.

This is the first website I have ever developed, and I am proud of what it represents. Not just because the site exists, but because it gives me a place to collect my work, organize my thoughts, and build something that can grow with me over time. In the coming years, I have several ideas, projects, and notes that I want to develop here, so stay tuned.

Since this is my first write-up, I wanted to use it as a short introduction: a little about myself, what I am working on, and a few thoughts about where technology seems to be heading.

I recently graduated with my B.S. in Physics, and since leaving college I have felt a small space in my head that I wanted to fill. In high school, I had a great Computer Science teacher who encouraged me to start coding, regardless of the language. Since then, I have spent a lot of time working on projects, analysis, and technical documentation across different environments — MATLAB, Python, LaTeX, and others.

I also hadn't worked seriously with JavaScript in about four years, so this was a chance to knock the dust off while building something real. I wanted to make a site that shows a little bit of who I am, what I have worked on, and what I hope to achieve. This project helped fill that space in my head, and now that the first version is here, I am already thinking about what comes next.

That next project is already featured under my projects section: the Orbital Intelligence Dashboard. It is a web app meant to serve as a practical demonstration of my growing work in space systems, visualization, and technical analysis. If you want to read more about it, you can find it here: Orbital Intelligence Dashboard.

I also wanted to write briefly about AI, because it has become difficult to talk about building anything today without mentioning it.

The opinion I want to highlight most is this: the strongest workers of tomorrow will not necessarily be the people who ignore AI or the people who rely on it completely. They will be the people who learn how to use it well — people who can bring judgment, taste, technical understanding, and discipline to the tools available to them.

AI is not just an emerging idea anymore. It is already here, and it is already useful. If it can help you build your next website, app, project, or idea, I think it is worth exploring how far that idea can go. I would be lying if I said AI did not help me organize parts of this website. It did. But the direction, the decisions, and the reason for building it still had to come from me.

That distinction matters.

Used well, AI can reduce friction. It can help you get unstuck, organize scattered thoughts, test ideas faster, and find simpler ways to approach a problem. In that sense, it has become part of the modern problem-solving process. But it still works best when the person using it has a clear goal, a standard for quality, and enough understanding to know what should and should not be accepted.

This website is one small example of that. It is not perfect, and it will keep changing, but it is mine. It gives me a place to document what I am building, what I am learning, and where I am trying to go.

Thanks for reading.

— Peter