Ever since I was eight, sitting in front of my mom’s dusty HP Pavilion with a taped-up power cord, computers felt less like tools and more like puzzles worth solving. I spent my childhood running Linux distros, writing terrible Visual Basic code, and breaking things on purpose just to see what would happen. In 8th grade, a friend and I turned a Tuesday extracurricular into a full Linux distro ITD-OS, which somehow ended up featured in Linux Format.
At fifteen I built Beaver Notes, a note-taking app born out of frustration with every other option out there. I taught myself Vue the slow way by reading through by reading through Notething's source code line by line until I understood what each piece did, then using that as a foundation to build something of my own. It's still how I learn best, sitting with something until it clicks, then seeing how far I can take it.
Beaver Notes ended up meaning more than I expected. It introduced me to people I wouldn’t have met otherwise and pushed me into rooms I didn’t think I belonged in. This is where I write about what I’m building and what I’m figuring out as I go.