about

i was always a shy and weird kid (before i was diagnosed with autism in my adult years) so i spent a lot of time on the computer. definitely too much time, but it's there i discovered forums such as kawaiiville, pixelbee, and teahouse mb (if you remember any of these PLEASE CONTACT ME LIKE FOR REAL). i saw all the cool little sites people made to display their pixels, glitter graphics, and neat stuff they coded. i always really loved pixel art (have made my own, but it was never my forte) and i got into coding my own websites.

i made crappy sites on freewebs and piczo, using the free layouts and graphics people made because i didn't know how to pirate software like photoshop when i was 8. compared to sites of similar aesthetic, they sucked. but for an 8 year old, it was pretty damn good. i loved making sites for every topic i was interested in; sailor moon, tokyo mew mew, ghosts, cats. instead of being excited to go play a sport or something after school, i was excited to hop on the computer and browse these forums, tweak my websites, or play sims 2.

i moved on from this hobby once these forums and sites began shutting down and dying out. in my junior year of high school, i took a web development class and re-discovered my love for it, but i was disappointed to find that this niche community was still quite dead. in college, i initially went for a computer science degree, but i was AWFUL at calculus and physics, which was required for the program. i struggled to pass even with all the tutoring, and considered other majors, namely psychology or forensics/criminology/detective work. but honestly i lack the people skills for psychology and didn't want to go to medical school, and many careers paths in forensics and criminology included being a cop beforehand (which before i realized how much they suck, is definitely not a career i'm suited for or want to do). i started at community college and transferred to university, and on orientation day, i saw that they had a web development major. it didn't require all the hardcore science and math classes, and had classes about the stuff i was really interested in, like web programming and databases. i changed my major right then and there and don't regret it

i graduated a bit later than most because of changing my major and failing a pre-requisite when i was a computer science major, but i could never give it up. i can't imagine another career for me. one professor in particular made me question if i should give it up (she was awful and full of herself. made a lot of students drop out of compsci), but now i'd tell her to suck it because i worked hard to study and understand this stuff. i work at a small local agency as a front end developer for about 2 years now, working mainly making custom wordpress sites. it doesn't pay as well as a bigger company but i'm treated like a human being and i'm fine with that trade-off. all that being said, i still don't always use best practices on this site LOL i'm slowly working through this and always learning more about the web. feel free to peek my source code idc

this about me went way longer than it needed to. here's some blinkies for you if you read my entire life story.