Hi!

My name is Jack Sovern and I am a senior in high school, about to go to the University of Iowa to study Computer Science and Engineering (yes, it’s one major). I’ve been interested in computers since I was seven or eight years old watching my dad play Civilization on our old beaten-up Toshiba. Five or so years ago, I built my own computer from parts, and from then on, I have been obsessed with computers. I started coding in Python 3 years ago, took up Rust for a misguided time, learned C for fun, and have now been using Java as my main language for the past year.

I have a lifelong love of learning as much as I can, and this website is proof of this. I’ve recently took up a hobby of self-hosting, with a small server at my home running pi-hole, a web server with Hugo as its landing site, Kiwix for wikipedia, and several of my server-side applications written in Java. This website will be a space where I can share what I have been recently working on. Nothing here will be cutting edge, impressive, or perhaps even well-written. This entire site is an experiment, just for myself.

Some of my favorite projects I’ve created are listed here: