Prologue — One devs journey

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The stack — VB6, Macros, MS Access The Experience — 0 Years The Job — Start of High school Where do I even begin? Like I stated in the prologue, I was fascinated with tech from a very young age. What I failed to mention before is that thanks to my l...
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It’s rude not to introduce myself, so I’ll start with a little background, just to get us started. I can call myself a developer for over 15 years now, and a tinkerer for a few more. I started playing with technology from the very young age of 7, when I entered and won a race event where I built a toy solar car. Till today, as a system architect and having some successes (and failures) at tech startups, and running my own dev & consulting business.
As of late, my team and I have released the first of our libraries as open source, this has made me look back at the path that led me here. My main goal is to share that story, the ups and downs (and sometimes sideways) and hopefully it will help someone on their path. I can’t promise it will be interesting all the time (or even pretty), but I hope you will join me for the journey.
I will be writing this as a few different posts, each one not much longer than this one, as I want it to be a quick and fun read. So this is the plan: