If my website were a person, he would now be able to drive.

This website first went online 16 years ago, on February 6, 2010. I had been working on it for a month, using what I learned helping out on a project over the previous year. At that time, PHP, LAMP, and AJAX were all the rage. The landscape has changed immensely over the years. Ruby on Rails came and went. JavaScript stuck around. But, websites in general have been disappearing, with many sites and forums going offline, such as FatWallet, AnandTech, Kaizoku-Fansubs, Animenfo, amongst others. With the crypto craze during COVID, and now the AI boom, it feels that the pace of real software development has slowed down. During all this time, I've just been gradually adding on to my website, which morphed from a showcase of my capabilities into a blog detailing my journey through life.

It's only during times like these, when I look back, that I realize how time has flown by. I've been working for almost 16 years so far, in a generally continuous stream of employment.

There's some uncertainty in the future, and with my age and a family now, I definitely feel the limits in my availability in being able to work on programming side projects as much as I used to. But, I will continue to keep this website running for as long as possible. Let's see how far we get.