I am so smitten with this new discovery, especially because it wasn’t something I intentionally pursued.

I fell into coding and stumbled into discovering that I f***** love it.

How this love affair began? 💋

My friend recommended I try out using neocities to build a website for my dungeon synth project.

It wasn't exactly an easy start.

It took me a long time to give it a try and when I finally did, I got immediately discouraged because it appeared to be too complicated and require advanced skills to use. ie actual coding which I had no understanding of at all.

After another pause I eventually tried messing around with it a bit more. It was hard and dissatisfying at first because there wasn’t a lot of immediate gratification, just clunky confusing frustrating bumbling around in the dark.

BUT then! I started to get the hang of it, and it started to be really satisfying.

Still moving around in the dark but having moments of perplexing success.

I spent the first year casually experimenting and self learning good enough HTML with a tiny bit of CSS, to make this website.

I didn’t know what I was doing and despite being at a rudimentary pre school level of coding, I felt bad ass and cool as hell to be coding a website.

I have now started my first free coding course on Codecademy.

I decided to start at the beginning and take the 'Learn HTML' course, even though it felt a bit boring to go back through some of the basics. I want to have a solid understanding of all the building blocks before moving foward.

~C ⭐