Longer about me.
My name is Dmitrii Pashutskii. This page is a short timeline of my life and highlights I find interesting.
The main thing about me is that I am a tech person, always was, and probably always will be. I have loved tech from a very young age, and it transformed into my career and life. My career started as tech support at a telecommunication company (no, I do not recommend tech support, especially via phone, as your first job; it's terrible xD). Later, I shifted towards network engineering and server administration.
Once I got fed up working with servers, I figured I needed to start making stuff myself, so I learned programming. Starting with PHP, switching to shiny JavaScript, and eventually settling on Ruby as my main server language these days. I still use JS for making simple websites like this blog.
After working for about 6 years as a software engineer, I completely fell in love with creating stuff and settled on the thought that I am a "jack of all trades but master of none". I can do many things pretty well, but I am not looking for a life where I am a particular expert in one.
Somewhere in the middle, I also discovered filmmaking, and it became my main hobby. I started my YouTube channel to share travel with my wife at first, and later this channel changed as I changed as a person; it's still changing. Since I am a "YouTuber", many of my photos are weird and made for thumbnails; an example is a picture on this page.
Oh, and travel. I went on my first trip abroad in 2013, and it was another thing I decided I wanted to continue doing. I grew up in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, and for a big chunk of my life, I hadn't seen anything except this country. Looking back, traveling opened my eyes to many things about the world and people.
In 2018, my wife and I went traveling full time, and we spent 4 years of being "digital nomads" exploring a big chunk of Southeast Asia. In 2022, we decided to find a home base and eventually moved to the Netherlands, where we are living right now.
My reasons and ways of traveling changed, but the activity stays with me until today. These days, I prefer slow travel and spending some significant amount of time in places. I still enjoy exploring cities but enjoy nature way more.