it out
Tinker.break.Ship.
i'm forty, mostly self-taught, and i've been building stuff on computers for about twenty-three years. not always as a job — usually just because i get an idea at 11pm that feels urgent until 2am, then sort of embarrassing by morning. i build those anyway.
got my first
computer at seventeen.
broke it the same day.
Twenty-three years of installing things i don't fully understand, breaking them, googling the error at 1am, and somehow getting it working right before i fall asleep. i still don't really know what i'm doing. i've just gotten faster at faking it.
i never turned this into a real job. partly because i like building more than selling, partly because invoicing makes me want to lie down. so i just keep making things i wish existed.
almost everything here started because i needed it and the existing options annoyed me. either they wanted my email, or $15 a month, or they had a mascot in sunglasses. so i made my own.
nobody asked. made it anyway.
Boring,
on purpose.
i use the same few tools for almost everything because learning a new framework every six months makes me tired. TypeScript, React, Postgres, and whatever lets me deploy without thinking too hard. the goal is usually just to finish the thing before i get bored of it.
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. especially if it uses a stack that's slightly too complicated for the problem.
(please, no recruiter pings about a “rockstar” role)