About me
I have always loved making things. When I was a child I used to beg my grandmother to give me a hammer and nails and I would spend quite some time hammering boards together on her back porch. I sucked at it and to this day I have no idea what I was making.
When I got older and discovered computers I realized that my real talent for creation was in that of intangible things. I began teaching myself Basic when I was around nine years old after becoming obsessed with the idea of making my own text adventure games. A few years later, I learned QBasic from its built-in help files and some 80s game programming books I found at the library.
When I hit my early 20s I started playing around with HTML, eventually learned web standards and very soon after taught myself PHP. Later I started learning Perl, but gave up on it pretty quickly.
These days most of my focus is on Python and Javascript, but I still bust out the PHP when the job calls for it.
I hate titles. I think titles pigeon hole a person and restrict potential, so when presented with the question “what do you do?” I usually just say “I’m a developer” and move on.