If you're here on purpose, you're probably interested in the human attached to the noisy brain. If you landed here by accident, I hope the emojis draw your attention.
Got my first 🖥 in 1998 and fell in love with the device. Decided that it had to be a significant part of my life from then on
🎮 Played Half-Life, Counter Strike ◎ and Quake III Arena 1 on dial-up with >500ms ping (explains why I still suck at FPS)
Took an early interest in reverse engineering and devoured the legendary ORC+ tutorials
Worked my way through college, majoring in computer applications 🎓. No wasted knowledge, but probably wasted time
Fell in love with the web and building pages and apps with
<!doctype html>,* { css: --var(required); }andjavascript:alert("undefined is not a function");Found Elm for the first time in 2015 but it looked like gibberish for someone new to FP. Re-discovered it in 2018 and it's my favourite way to write webapps hands down! Following gleam with lustre as the next iteration of the Elm architecture
Moved to Melbourne, Australia (🌞 🌤 🌦 🥶) where I've been since, drinking ☕ and eating 🥑🥪
Been writing on the 🌐 at least since 2003, but history tells a different story
I still remember my Q3A CD key off the top of my head!↩