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Are you a professional or a hobbyist? How did you get your start in programming? What type of project/s are you working on currently? (lemmy.one)

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I'm always interested in hearing other's stories and what they're working on. Anyone care to share?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I started off in 2005 on Neopets. There was a feature that let you create your own custom pages for anything which I thought was the coolest thing at the time. I had to learn HTML and CSS to get started.

Turns out that was way cooler than Neopets. Don’t get me wrong, Neopets is awesome, but I absolutely fell in love with building with code back then. Fast-forward to now, I’m a senior dev at a VC studio helping various startups get off the ground.

I’m a fan of learning and building, so it’s kept me in this career ever since. It’s been fun seeing the times change with all sorts of tech. Am a giant fan of FOSS and love contributing where I can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did the neopets thing too! I remember having to ask the local library to acquire books that taught HTML and CSS so I could learn it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yessss such good times. Love the shared experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I posted my full story elsewhere, but my origin as a coder also starts with a game before I realized that coding was more interesting. In my case it was C&C: Red Alert, which was the first video game I got for Christmas.