While I have never managed to create any software as meaningful as the level I hoped my career would reach, writing code has after all given me a lifelong caree

While I have never managed to create any software as meaningful as the level I hoped my career would reach, writing code has after all given me a lifelong career, so the things I've made must have meant something to someone. I was a child, and computers were fascinating. I wanted to learn everything about them. When someone showed me that I could write a program of my own, that I could make the computer do what I wanted it to - that was it. I dug into programming just as hard as I see some kids now dig into video games, and I kept that exploration up for decades. Much of my career I've spent trying to pass along something like that formative experience: in various ways, building tools which empower people to take greater control of their own computers.