I started coding in early high school on a TI-83+ Silver Edition graphing calculator, picking apart programs with black-box reverse-engineering before I had reliable internet access. I practiced several hours a day for years on an 8×16 character display with no lexical scoping — variables were global to every program, so I wrote code bottom-up so the editor would land near a fault faster, and I memorized entire listings because the screen could not hold them.

From fractal generators and a black-and-white image compression scheme to automated math suites (to avoid doing the actual school work) and text-based Pong and Snake, my early work was obsessive, improvised, and deeply intimate with the machine.

I am an “unprofessional”: I do not focus on breaking systems — I break expectations and question the existing order of things.

The quotes and figures that shaped that posture are on the Inspirations page(also in the header). My self-written WordPress about page is archived verbatim at About (WordPress archive).