• I am a person before I am anything else.
• I don't like following rules.
• I like thinking, struggling with complicated questions.
• I like helping people realize they can learn anything.
• I started writing code in the mIRC client back in ~2002 (I was born in 1990 - forgive me).
  • I think software engineering is more an art than it is a craft.
  • I think programming languages are tools, a means to an end, hammers.
  • I like solving problems and seeing something that I built, the house.
  • I don't glorify the tools I use, the hammers.
  • I started programming so I could build scripts that run inside of mIRC.
    • I wanted to write text-based games. I was a kid.
    • Industry work is not fun/interesting.
• I'm a generalist.
  • I've worked at quite a few spots as a software engineer.
  • My default language choice is Python 🐍, but I'm not married to it.
  • I primarily work on developing back-ends for internet products.
    • I design and build web APIs.
    • I hate calling myself "fUlL-StACk" or "bACk-ENd", because that's stupid. I'm an engineer, a solver of problems, a builder. Those labels are new, the result of exploitative industry folks who needed a way to sell software engineering to non-technical people.
• If you want to talk to me, I'm pretty open.
  • I like talking programming.
  • I like talking about new and old tech.
  • Just throw time on my calendar: https://iNeedToTalkToGreg.com/

I'll probably end up editing this so that it isn't as exhaustive a list.