Everything I’ve written so far in this biography series—the early tinkering, the security mindset, AuDHD-driven depth and breadth—leads to one practical question: How do I actually run projects so they ship cleanly, stay stable, and don’t turn into chaos? This is...
TL;DRMy AuDHD didn’t just shape what I learned—it shaped how I learned. I never came up through “programmer culture,” so I didn’t absorb the usual social shortcuts (leet-speak trivia, trendy stacks by default, pedigree signaling). Instead, I built capability the hard...
TL;DRAfter 9/11, my family’s move to Virginia and a stretch of homeschooling dropped me into long, unsupervised hours with a computer, dial-up internet, and a growing obsession with how software really works. Watching early “techno” films and hearing a family member...