It all started when a "build a calculator in C" video popped up in my feed. I'd always liked messing around with computers, but that was the moment I got hooked on building things from scratch.

After that, I was just tinkering constantly. For a long time, I stayed boxed in the MERN and meta-framework bubble. It was fun, but I eventually reached a point where I needed something more.

That's when I started playing with lower-level stuff and scripts. I wrote custom Bash scripts to automate Linux chores (you can do basically anything with Bash), wrote a reverse shell in Go to learn TCP, and built CLI tools for myself. I even tried building a SaaS product with a guy I met on Discord—we actually launched it, but had to drop it immediately after.

The journey's still going, and there's still plenty of fuel left.