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Discussion on: What's your developer origin story?

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Shannon Crabill

I was bitten by a radioactive Javascript function on a school field trip that one time.

Really. It was more like this.

  • I did a lot of arts and crafts on my own time as a kid
  • Graphic design seemed like a good idea for a major in college (I had no idea what I wanted to be)
  • I graduated, would introduce my major/what I did and the response was "Oh, so you do websites?"
  • I learned to code on my own time.
  • Got hired as an email designer
  • Learned email development on the job and on my own time

I still work as an email developer now, but I put in a lot of time to keep my front-end and programming skills up to date.

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Chris Achard

"bitten by a radioactive Javascript function" 🤣