About
I make computers do things.
Networking, Linux, old hardware, embedded gadgets, web projects, reverse engineering, and whatever technical rabbit hole looked interesting enough to climb into.
How I got here
I first discovered HTML in 1998 and built exactly the kind of Web 1.0 vanity page you are imagining: loud colors, “under construction” graphics, probably too many tables, and yes, the <blink> tag.
It was forever under construction, like a Michigan road.
Later I discovered PHP and started using includes so I could stop copying the same chunks of HTML into every page.
At work, I eventually inherited some very old PHP and dragged it roughly a decade forward into something less terrifying, including fixing an alarming number of SQL injection vulnerabilities.
These days, I still understand HTML and PHP well enough to know what I want changed. I just prefer using ChatGPT to make those edits instead of spending my evening manually shuffling tags around.