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Before working on this site, I had experience working with Ruby on Rails from a university course project and Symfony 4 from developing the site of CenEka, a student organization I was part of. Both are frameworks that allow you to quickly cobble together a good web application. So the easiest way to develop my own website would’ve been to use the Symfony framework since that would be the framework that I have the most experience with.

Recently I started refreshing and expanding on my knowledge of digital design. But I found that the way I learned to design logic for FPGAs in a HDL (VHDL in my case) seems lacking in a way. At university, we were dependent on Xilinx Vivado, a proprietary GUI program to write, test, synthesize, and implement HDL. Version control was done by sending zips with VHDL files back and forth. Verification was done by writing testbenches in VHDL and, at best, these loaded in files with input stimuli and the expected outputs, but mostly, verifying the outputs was done by viewing the traces from the testbenches, which, weirdly enough, felt quicker.