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

  • nshki@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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!

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      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.

    • darknavi@vlemmy.net
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      1 year ago

      Sometimes I think about my Neopets being starved. A few years back I took the time to recover my ancient email and my Neopet account. After a few hours of labor I finally go to log in and I’m banned!