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i am hermit. i am an artist and data engineer. i enjoy woodworking, collecting typewriters & telephones, cooking, vintage web design & computing, and watching & playing hockey.
this website is an eternal work in progress and will change over time. embrace it like i am learning to.
i made my first website in 2009. it’s background color was #ff0000 and i don’t remember anything else about it.
i made my second website in 2010. this one was legible and held a collection of my game maker games. it was fun. i learned to program first with game maker. html was a fun itch to scratch and i am still fond of it now. crafting web pages is highly enjoyable.
i discovered PHP in 2013 and made a handful of websites, including one that allowed users to send and receive random messages under a pen name. this caught some attention. it was here that i sharpened my database skills as well, ultimately leading me to a day-job doing miscellaneous database maintenance. i now work as a data engineer, though i think my title is incongrous with my level of skill. i am happy to answer any questions about integrating your website with a database such as MariaDB or SQLite.