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241 sats \ 1 reply \ @satoshiplanet 23 Jan \ on: What made you want to become a dev? devs
Wow this is funny, my first steps in programming were out of pure necessity, one of my best childhood friends had a very high level of blindness, he was very fond of soccer and loved to read sports news every day. Unfortunately his vision got much worse in a few months and he couldn't read as much news as he liked, so I researched about tools that could improve his user experience.
Here I discovered the exciting opensource ecosystem, but on the other hand I realized that most websites were not accessible for people with special needs, something that still happens today. I was obsessed for weeks to get my friend could continue to enjoy reading that he liked so much, I spent the day saving lines of code to later juggle until he could hear the news directly, it was something simple but it made me feel like a little wizard of the web.
Months later I started to offer web accessibility services to some local companies, I charged ridiculous prices but I made sure I kept learning, my goal was simply to turn the webs into accessible spaces for everyone. So yep, I don't consider myself an expert, I just fell in love with python years ago, although my creative nature makes me feel happier and more comfortable in frontend and UI dev
Very cool story!
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