SPIKYprofile.dev
Spiky Profile <dev>
97th percentile comprehension. 4th percentile decoding. One brain.
My name is Patryk. I'm a self-taught developer in the middle of a career transition nobody designed a pipeline for. I write about Rust, self-hosted infrastructure, and what 40+ rejections actually look like from the inside.
About this website
This site is the public face of my transition from knitting machine operator to software engineer.
The name comes from my formal cognitive assessment, which revealed a striking "spiky profile " — outstanding silent reading comprehension alongside well-below-average decoding and working memory.
That contrast shapes how I learn, how I teach, and how I build.
The blog covers:
- Spiky Rust — a tutorial series that starts with the end state and works backward, prioritising intuition before formalism. Written for developers who already know how to code and want to understand Rust without wading through toy examples.
- Self-hosting & infrastructure — Proxmox, Nginx, CI/CD, and the reality of running your own stack.
- Career transition — honest writing about the junior developer job search, 40+ rejections, and what the process actually looks like.
Tech Stack
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Frontend | Leptos(SSR) |
| Backend | Axum |
| Language | Rust |
| Styling | TailwindCSS |
| Hosting | Bare-metal Proxmox |
| Reverse Proxy | Nginx |
| CI/CD | GitHub Action |
| Analytics/CD | Plausible (self-hosted) |