Started with a game addon, never really stopped

I got into programming because I wanted a gold tracker for a game I played far too much, and no existing addon showed the number I cared about. That is still roughly how every project starts: something is annoying, and fixing it looks like about a weekend of work. It rarely is.

These days I mostly work on backend systems that move money or messages — the kind where being wrong is expensive and quiet. I care a lot about failure modes: what happens when the third party is down, when the user closes the tab, and when two requests arrive in the same millisecond.