About

I'm Nick Dahl, and welcome to my personal site! Here's a little background about me:

I'm an engineer - software/firmware by trade, electrical by education. I have a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, but I've worked in firmware and other low-level software for my entire professional career. I won't list out my employers here nor link to any professional profiles, as I want to keep this site separate from my professional life (aside from this introduction).

I also spend a lot of my time baking and cooking in general. I consider myself an amateur, by a more original and flattering meaning of the word:

a person who takes part in an activity for pleasure, not as a job

I prefer this meaning as it avoids the connotation that one lacks skill in something or is not good at it - I have spent a long time practicing and improving my cooking skills, and I hope that the recipes I post here will reflect that.

Aside from the cooking, most of my hobbies are stereotypically nerdy stuff. I like designing custom PCBs for projects, writing my own firmware for them, and 3D printing enclosures and assemblies. I also play a lot of games (both video games and tabletop games), and have attempted to dabble in game creation myself multiple times over the years. I've got some game ideas that I want to work on in the future, and if I do, I'll probably post about them here.

A final note: all views and opinions expressed on this site are wholly my own and do not reflect any of my employers, past, present, or future. As I mentioned above, I want to keep this site separate from my professional life, so please understand that everything I post here entirely personal.