I like to make things. I like to achieve inspiration and create a result. I also like to have complete and total control over what happens in my programs, and I'm not afraid to re-invent whatever wheels need re-inventing to meet my requirements if the existing wheels don't have winter treads. I am very focused on results.

My first program was written at the grand age of three. I achieved the sum total of insulting the user if they identified themselves as a sibling. Then I moved on to DarkBASIC (and Pro) but never achieved anything of note. My first successful programming experience was at sixteen when I modded a game, which was the first time that I programmed something and achieved an actual useful result. After a couple of years, I succeeded in exploiting the game's architecture to give the player unfair information advantage. At this point, I realized that, even if in a limited sense, I had defeated the game's original developers, and that there was no inherent reason to believe that I couldn't continue in such a fashion on my own projects.

I picked up a CS degree course at Loughborough University but I find it immensely unsatisfying. The lecturers appear to possess no desire whatsoever to create an actual thing, and little of the course has any relation to creating executable programs even as works of art, let alone than useful tools. As such, I find that it has little correlation with what I intend to do with my life, and intend to abandon formal education as soon as practically possible.