Programming

“So I opened up an EXE file with the EDIT command, only to be greeted with a bunch of gobbledygook [...] This didn’t deter me - instead, I made my own EXE file with a bunch of gobbledygook. When I ran the program, the computer reset. I thought I just wrote a program that resets the computer!”

“The first experience where I actually did anything code-related was at this apartment I used to crash at in my early 20s. There was a girl who had taken classes on HTML and CSS [...] That was my first exposure to HTML, building local websites, never pushing anything. I thought it was cool that I could actually do it. [...] I was like, “That’s it? That’s all there is to it?” So I started building all kinds of stuff, never pushing anything to a domain at that time.”

“Everything changed when I left my job to work remotely as a freelancer. I’d always struggled with staying motivated, and I feared that this would make it worse. But the opposite happened. With a less rigid distinction of work and free time, I became more productive than ever. I had an idea for a web app, and I was working on it day and night for weeks, just because it felt so rewarding to see it all come together.”