Making things digitally about ama HOT 2 CLOSED

First question has already been asked, my bad.

from ama.

I was interested in how things work for as long as I remember myself. I used to disassemble any tech my family wanted to throw away, like clocks, telephones, etc.

When I was 8 or 9 years old, I read books on circuit engineering. I drew circuits of clocks and similar stuff, and I made a shopping list: resistors, logic elements, soldering board, etc. However after I bought all of that, I was too lazy to actually do the soldering, and I never proceeded with that hobby.

It's only after I got a computer and found out about programming (#2) that I started actually making something. Again, for a long time, I didn't actually create anything so I was just helping people on forums. My first “real” project was tagmonkey—a now-defunct iTunes extension to auto-tag music library including searching for artwork in Google Images and lyrics in LyricWiki.

However I only really got into open source after releasing React Hot Loader which received tremendous attention from the community, and motivated me to release stuff in the open.

from ama.