... prefer not to use a tongue twister I've been a long-time lurker / Casper the Friendly Ghost like many others for a while and it's so nice meeting fellow builders. I want to know what was the catalyst or the trigger where you thought "I'm going to build something and put it out there." For me - it happened after 9 years as a data engineer. I spent months building a massive end to end system ...

... video game studio director managing 175+ developers. I watch code being written every day, but I haven't personally shipped anything in three decades. Until two months ago. The catalyst: My friend and I had an idea for an emotion tracker. I knew a bit about CSS, so I tried teaching him. But I quickly realized he needed to learn by experimenting and the traditional path was killing his momentum. Setting up VS