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Braxton Fair

I'd like to think it was about 2011 - 2012. I was probably about 10 years ago, and as with most Generation Z's, I grew up with a console. It was the Wii. As I played with it, I ended up getting bored with it's built in capabilities, and looked to branch out. This is where I found out about Homebrew.

I loaded it into my Wii, and was amazed at the new capabilities. As I booted up I saw some logging information and was immediately intrigued. I looked into the code behind it all, and quickly got lost, as it was C code. I decided to look more into easing myself coding, and looked at Windows Batch programming and creating websites.

That is what started it for me. As I grew up over the next few years, I tried experimenting with a lot. This includes Java game programming with OpenGL, PHP (Laravel), NodeJS(This is where I am focusing on currently), the C family, and even Golang.

I have gone through diverse phases, but web development always seems to capture my attention. I am also learning more and more about cryptography and security research. There is my story, and my first post here on dev.to!