[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":80},["ShallowReactive",2],{"post-en-/blog/learn-by-building":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":70,"description":71,"extension":72,"image":73,"meta":74,"navigation":75,"path":76,"seo":77,"stem":78,"__hash__":79},"content_en/blog/learn-by-building.md","I'm 23 finishing my degree and building things anyway",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":63},"minimark",[9,13,16,19,22,27,30,33,36,38,42,45,48,50,54,57,60],[10,11,12],"p",{},"There are two kinds of students at the end of their studies.",[10,14,15],{},"One waits. Graduates, sends out CVs, and hopes someone gives them a shot. The other builds. Not because they have to, but because staying still doesn't feel like an option.",[10,17,18],{},"I fall into the second category, though I sometimes wonder if that's smart or just stubborn.",[20,21],"hr",{},[23,24,26],"h2",{"id":25},"who-i-am","Who I am",[10,28,29],{},"My name is Ben, 23, studying Digital Design at Hogeschool PXL in Hasselt. On paper, I'm a designer. In practice, I write more code than I open Figma and that's 90% of the time just for the dev seat ;). My stack runs on Vue/Nuxt, Next.js, Laravel, Payload CMS, and Tailwind CSS, but honestly I just pick whatever solves the problem best.",[10,31,32],{},"Right now I'm doing an internship at a marketing agency in Hasselt where I'm not tracing mockups. I'm building and shipping full websites. I've got a few projects under my belt already, and every time I finish one I think: \"hmm, what could be better, faster, different?\" And then I get back to work.",[10,34,35],{},"That's not theory. That's just work that got done.",[20,37],{},[23,39,41],{"id":40},"how-i-learn","How I learn",[10,43,44],{},"I learn by building. By making mistakes in production, by reading documentation at 11pm or bothering my best friend AI, by shipping things that aren't perfect but do work. Every site that goes live is proof that I picked up something new along the way.",[10,46,47],{},"That also means tackling things I hadn't done before. Setting up a VPS, getting mail integration to work, thinking through a multilingual routing structure. Not because someone asked, but because it was necessary.",[20,49],{},[23,51,53],{"id":52},"why-im-writing-this","Why I'm writing this",[10,55,56],{},"This blog is an extension of that way of working. No marketing fluff, no tutorials you can find anywhere else. Just honest conversations about what I'm building, what breaks, and what I take away from it.",[10,58,59],{},"Expect posts about my journey as a developer, my thoughts on the industry, and maybe even some personal stories. Because I believe there's value in sharing the process, not just the result.",[10,61,62],{},"If that resonates or if you just want to see what I'm making. Feel free to keep reading.",{"title":64,"searchDepth":65,"depth":65,"links":66},"",2,[67,68,69],{"id":25,"depth":65,"text":26},{"id":40,"depth":65,"text":41},{"id":52,"depth":65,"text":53},"2026-05-04","An honest introduction about who I am, what I build during my internship, and how I learn by just doing.","md",null,{},true,"/blog/learn-by-building",{"title":5,"description":71},"blog/learn-by-building","uNx02_rKfbJ8cBc0l0oh2NHUJiKEXbbUfzBlN8Tkr2c",1778180701394]