It all started when a "build a calculator in C" video popped up in my feed. I'd always liked messing around with computers, but that was the moment I got hooked on building things from scratch.

For a long time after that, I was tinkering constantly, mostly stuck in the MERN stack and meta-framework bubble. It was fun, but I eventually hit a point where I wanted to see what else was out there.

That's when I started playing with lower-level stuff and scripts. I wrote custom Bash scripts to automate Linux chores (you can do basically anything with Bash), wrote a reverse shell in Go to learn TCP, and built CLI tools for my own use. I even tried building a SaaS product with someone I met on Discord. We managed to launch it, but we had to abandon the project almost immediately after.

Still learning, and the adventure continues.