How did you get into web development?
MySpace? Comp sci? Made the jump from print? Bootcamp?
MySpace? Comp sci? Made the jump from print? Bootcamp?
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Fast forward to 2010-11 and I learned about Node.js, got really into that and was mostly backend until I got put on frontend projects.
That's when I learned to love it. I like making things for people.
(And then, eventually - like 16 years later - I did a computer science degree)
It started promising with the WYSIWYG editor first, but I found it pretty quickly that I actually had to learn HTML & CSS if I wanted to understand what I'm doing there.
Take me back to the good old days. 🥺
Tried a bunch of things and ended up in night college for Design and Multimedia.
Academic Week from Computer Science had a 30min lecture on HTML5 + CSS3, mandatory attendance for my class
Everybody fell asleep. I got hooked, never looked back.
Just self-interest and future thinking. Knowing it was going to be something.
Should have done more with it sooner, but hey the ADHD brain does want it wants.
Had an internship updating product descriptions on a brewery’s website
Got a job where I had to debug broken email templates and landing pages
Took some bootcamp courses later!
Honoured to be a 96'er with you @rachelandrew.bsky.social I've learnt so much from you over the years.
Anyway, my first son was born and I got an internship and pile of code books all on the same day.
Made a flash site, with a interactive map of Scandinavia. We were called Team Nordic, that’s the last time I really dreamt big 😃
I started a business repairing PCs and needed a website.
I spent forever teaching myself some basic web dev stuff and realised those skills were a lot more interesting to me.
Been hooked ever since. 🙂
All downhill from there
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I was a geocities guy and then moved to tripod.
First thing I did was to try and replicate the Start menu but with GPU compositing.
Been at it nearly 18 months now and the shine still hasn’t hasn’t worn off 😀
Eventually my first project at university was building a web page of course
For me, after learning Photoshop layers, HTML structure and CSS was much easier to understand (as it is layers of DOM elements on a page).
My Games Programming course in Uni also had a web dev module.
I decided to switch focus from game dev to web dev somewhere around 2018 🤔
During that time I went back to school to learn web development. It was one of the better ideas I ever had and it opened the door to digital journalism.
Ended up giving me a ton of time to learn to code then went to a local bootcamp and got a job
I was already into tech and computer stuff and a lifelong nerd, I started building some small websites for small local businesses.
https://www.evrsoft.com/company.shtml
They did nothing with it and I haven’t looked back.
No tooling, just raw dogging some notepad. 😅 Been hooked ever since
By the time I was finishing high school in 2000.
I was so hell bent on web dev that I managed to convince my Design and Technology teachers my major project could be a website. haha
Injecting JS alert popup "Welcome to my profile page" makes it very cool among my friends...
I learned the basics from htmlgoodies and created some early personal sites with `
Then went on to study comp sci.
Btw one of my first attempts at learning JS was your JavaScript30 challenge!
That was circa 2007, have not looked back since.
In high school got some real work gigs building front-ends for WP.
In high school I was also involved with the school paper, helped design it a bit and built a new website for it.
And then a friend said he did not understand WordPress. It's basically just one ADHD sidequest still going.
It was magical the first time I opened up a bit of hand-coded html in the browser.
When I wasn’t near a computer, I’d sometimes write out html in a notebook 🤓
From there I tried to build my own fan site/wiki for RuneScape 😅