5 July 2025
Who am I?
The title says it. I am a 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science.
But who am I really?
I am someone who has always wanted to build stuff. I am fascinated by the process of creating anything. And it gives me unbridled pure joy to have people use something I have built in a meaningful and useful way.
I am not a complete beginner in computer science. I am still a somewhat-beginner. At least I know how to hack my way to build and host a minimalistic static blog like the one you are reading. I also just recently launched a slightly (only just so) more complex website for a passion project which my wife and I run [1]. I designed this website on my own as well while reading the book Refactoring UI [2]. This took me almost 4 months.
The fact that I was able to build both these websites was also thanks to this beautiful framework [3] (and their well written tutorials and documentation) I accidentally discovered. So I also know how to read and understand (a lot of times) technical documentation.
My career (so far)
I have had a very non-linear career graph. I left (ran away from) home when I was 16. I was unable to take up the academic pressure of wanting to excel at school and in the competitive exams that follow it.
Since then I have worked as a waiter, in an internet café, as a sales person, in a call center and in several other odd jobs. Most of my career though is spent as a teacher - teaching Math, Science and Computers to primary students.
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