Software developer · philologist by inclination
Careful software,
and the long lives of words.
I build systems that are quiet, legible, and well-structured — and I spend my evenings chasing etymologies down rabbit holes. Both, to me, are the same work: getting small things exactly right.
About
My first computer was a tower my father built, and I learned it the way you learn a house — by opening every door. Pinball first, then Windows Media Player and Winamp and VLC, and the Office suite because it was there. I made my own GIFs by editing them a frame at a time. Then the Stronghold games took hold of me, and of a ball mouse that had to be opened and cleaned before it would track again — which at the time nobody thought strange.
I never quite stopped taking things apart to see how they hold together. Today I write software for a living and read philology, linguistics, and old stories for everything else. What ties them together is a stubborn streak: a belief that the small things — a margin, a variable name, a comma — are where care actually shows.
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