it out
Tinker.break.Ship.
i'm forty, mostly self-taught, and i've been messing around on computers for about twenty-three years. not always for a paycheck — usually just because i get an idea around 11pm that feels incredibly urgent until 2am, then a little embarrassing by breakfast. i build them anyway. sometimes they even ship.
got my first
computer at seventeen.
broke it by tuesday.
twenty-three years of installing things i don't fully understand, breaking them, googling the error at 1am, then fixing it right before i fall asleep and forgetting how i did it by morning. i still don't really know what i'm doing. i've just gotten faster at pretending.
never turned it into a real career. partly because i like building way more than selling, partly because the word "invoice" makes me want to go lie down in a dark room. so i just keep making little things i wish existed and shipping them to nobody in particular.
most of this stuff started because i needed it and the existing options annoyed me. they wanted my email, or $15 a month, or they had a cartoon mascot in sunglasses. so i just made my own version and moved on.
nobody asked. built it anyway.
four things
i built because i needed them
and got impatient.
not really looking for work. but if you're building something weird and want to talk about it, i'm around. bonus points if the stack is a little too fancy for the problem — i respect that.
(no recruiter pings about "rockstar" roles, please. i'm forty.)