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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • Back in the day - it was around 2003 - I had a band and I wanted my band to have a website. That is when I installed Frontpage which let you design it with drag and drop. I had a menu which I wanted to show on each page, so I used serverside injection which Frontpage offered to do that. Later I found out that you tan even dynamically change the menu to highlight on which page you are if you do it with PHP and to a '[HTML_REMOVED]`. From there I added more dynamic things until I had some software on my hands.

    But this was not the first time I got into coding actually. First time was around 1992 when my dad bought me an Amiga 500 and it came with the AMIGABasic handbook. Back then while most of my friends only used it for games, I somehow got interested in trying to make the computer do what I want. So I wrote some small games, some animations, even a book lending management program. But after some years i stopped being interested in computers until ten years later.



  • Interesting, my dad is often complaining about the opposite, what is the risk if he let’s it do someone else? It’s because he has reasons to make things in a particular way which some professionals dismiss and do differently. And then he finds out way too late and then can’t really do what he planned or it involves a lot of extra work to work around the limitation.