About me

Hi, my name is Elliot, and I'm a second year computer science & mathematics student at the University of Liverpool. I have always been interested in computers, I made my first website when I was around 12 years old, and I remember thinking how cool it was that I could just make a website that other people could see from anywhere in the world. I have made websites for fun ever since, although I don't make anything complicated because I always try to make my websites with absolutely no Javascript.

I've also always been quite good at maths, I think what I like best about maths is the problem solving. That's probably why I also enjoy programming, as I like having a problem in front of me and being able to use my knowledge and my resources to solve it. I have a pretty strong interest in cryptography and intend to make detailed looks into different algorithms and post them here for all to see on this site.

Outside of these two areas, I love watching movies and try to go to the cinema to see new films as often as I can. As well as this, I have recently started learning Latin using Hans H. Ørberg's Lingua Latina per se Illustrata series of textbooks. In June of 2023 I managed to get a 3 month free trial of Duolingo, and I decided to use my 3 months to complete their latin course. After I completed the course however, I found that it wasn't as in depth as I would have liked, and upon further research I found the aforementioned book series and decided to give them a try. For you see, I enjoy reading classic books, and have often heard how reading a book in it's original language is incomparable to reading a translation, no matter how good it may be, and therefore I will continue to learn Latin until I can read some of the famous works of great Roman poets.

About cardenio

You may be wondering, why the name cardenio? What does it mean? And the rather simple answer to the question I assumed you to have asked yourself, is that while reading Don Quixote (an excellent book, that is very funny even 400 years later) I just really took a liking to the character of Cardenio, a man who went insane and ran away to live in the forest after seeing the love of his life agree to marry another man. I'm not sure why I like him so much, to quote Marge Simpson, 'I just think they're neat'.

Now on this website, I intend to post about anything I find interesting, be it a movie I've seen, or an encryption algorithm I've researched. I just want to share what I find interesting with the world, whether the world wants to listen or not is up to them.

Contact me

Should you feel the urge to contact me regarding anything at all, you can send me an email at: elliot@cardenio.org
If you would like to encrypt your message, you can download a copy of my public gpg key here.