i am a 100% self taught software engineer with a degree in philosophy and no formal training. it’s called getting a computer as a kid and being a fucking nerd.

i am a 100% self taught software engineer with a degree in philosophy and no formal training. it’s called getting a computer as a kid and being a fucking nerd. i did luck out in that my dad brought home a copy of visual basic from work for me to pirate. he was not a programmer but he knew i wanted to learn more and snuck it home (all 15 floppies or however many! i still remember the sound of installing it) so i could play with it. soon after that we got better internet and i learned about linux, and the rest was history. i only went to college because i was working in software right out of school and felt surrounded by old dudes and like i’d never meet a girlfriend this way.