I am an electronic musician, film lover and software engineer living in Columbus, Ohio.
I have been writing software since I created my first site in 1997 and became fascinated with the expressive potential of the Web as an artist's medium. Seeing my ideas on the screen was magical and democratic: until that point, every screen image I had seen was created by someone else, but the Web was mine and I was unstoppable. Making sites did not require permission or sophisticated tooling. I wrote in Notepad until I discovered "code editors" in high school. Learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript felt like drawing, like driving, like shaping the world I was growing up in.
Things are different now. Social media provides ready-made avenues of self-expression, but it comes at the cost of control and individuality (to say nothing of enshittification). To build for the Web is to practice media literacy and understand the modern world: it is the lowest barrier to entry into software engineering.
The purpose of this site is to solve my own problem: to make a platform so that I can publish what I want and reduce the gap between idea and expression. This site is the authoritative source of all my work. This site empowers me to reach my audience directly without an awkward ad-supported middleman.