Stephen's World

I sometimes feel as though I got into tech just in time, at the last possible moment. Granted I missed out on the glory days of the dot-com boom, a time that - from an outsider's perspective - seemed like a halcyon moment for software engineers, when the internet was still becoming the all-consuming thing (for better and worse) that it is today. Programming was much closer "to the metal" so to speak and was not yet embedded within layer upon layer of web-dev, framework abstractions, and the overall tech-stack requirements to make an entrepreneurial product were significantly simpler*. But I did, through much toil and effort, "make it" into this club we call "tech". And now that I'm in and increasingly accumulating industry experience the world is my oyster, onwards and upwards and all that jazz...

But I don't think I can say the same for the next wave coming in...

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I mainly work on backend projects (at first mostly creating websites in Razor and the Sitefinity content management system) C# and .Net. However, I find that my side-projects have so far been mainly in JavaScript. My first significant foray into JavaScript was a reference site for a game called Five Oaths.

There's also Mixle on here for those who like word games!