as a tinkerer, I love programming. I enjoy optimizing routines, fighting complexity, exploring the solution space for hard problems. the problem is, that doesn

as a tinkerer, I love programming. I enjoy optimizing routines, fighting complexity, exploring the solution space for hard problems. the problem is, that doesn't pay for a roof and a meal. so I spend my day fighting users that requires twenty seven pop-ups not to delete their own data accidentally, browsers that have each their own idea of css3, enterprise services that are a landmine of old documentation, bugs, workarounds, workarounds for bugged workarounds and bugs on top of these. as my mentor once said, if work were fun they wouldn't have to pay you to do it.