Do you remember the first time you made a computer say that? There is a special feeling of empowerment to bend the bits of the machines to your will. Programming is such a satisfying experience- when things are going as planned at least!😄

My introduction to programming was HyperScript in 1992 on a Macintosh SE/30... By 1996 I started learning HTML, and published my first webpage complete with a frameset layout, marquee, hit counter, guestbook, webring, and background music! What a time to be alive! ✨

These days I am a professional software developer at Kittelson where I get involved in all kinds of digital endevors. I'm actually still learning HTML _{^{(Due to being a living standards document with over 2 million words currently!)}}, but also I have picked up CSS, Javascript, SQL, Bash, Lisp, Ruby, Python, PHP, C# and many frameworks like .NET Core, Rails, React, Django as well as writing the code that runs within larger systems such as Wordpress, vBulletin, AutoCAD and Excel!

I setup GitHub orignally to start quantifying the bits I fiddle with. I probably saw the github activity chart mentioned on a blog and wanted to get in on that. Most of my work these days is done in private repos for the company, but I still get the public activity credit. I fell hard for that gamification. Its the only computer game I regularly play.

I am proud to have participated in a few open source projects with minor contributions including OpenAI.Net, Rails, SharpToken, fscrawler, and ATSPM. Its exhilarating and empowering to help -ever so slightly- with a product or library that I use. I still remember getting the notification that my first PR to someone else's project was merged and it felt great. Open source software is ❤️