Started as an obsession with computers in general. First started coding HTML when Netscape was a thing. My first "real" coding experience was playing with mIRC scripts though. Always fascinated by what you could make computers do. Totally self taught. Eventually a mutual friend started their own web design studio, got busy enough to hire me. Just kinda went from there.
Started as a script kiddie, now I get paid to write code. No complaints here.
I jumped around a bit. I started in front-end (HTML/CSS/JS) but I eventually moved to server side PHP/MySQL. I work a lot in the WordPress space, but I started learning OOP and such and built apps using Symfony / Laravel as well.
Eventually, I migrated into doing some server admin / ops stuff as well managing a number of VPS's and dedicated servers. I'd say at this point I'm kind of a jack of all trades.. master of none!
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Started as an obsession with computers in general. First started coding HTML when Netscape was a thing. My first "real" coding experience was playing with mIRC scripts though. Always fascinated by what you could make computers do. Totally self taught. Eventually a mutual friend started their own web design studio, got busy enough to hire me. Just kinda went from there.
Started as a script kiddie, now I get paid to write code. No complaints here.
So cool how you turned a hobby into a career! What language do you write in now?
I jumped around a bit. I started in front-end (HTML/CSS/JS) but I eventually moved to server side PHP/MySQL. I work a lot in the WordPress space, but I started learning OOP and such and built apps using Symfony / Laravel as well.
Eventually, I migrated into doing some server admin / ops stuff as well managing a number of VPS's and dedicated servers. I'd say at this point I'm kind of a jack of all trades.. master of none!