Programming is one of the great interests of my life. I’ve been programming since a young age (well before I became Grumpy), starting with BASIC on some old mainframes and a ZX81, before moving on to the Commodore 64 and then PCs. I’ve also been lucky enough to turn programming into a career, for which I’m extremely thankful - not everyone is lucky enough to get paid to do what they enjoy doing anyway! It’s not just pure coding that’s important to me though. Structuring code properly, algorithms, and systems design are all extremely interesting, and are things that I’d love to spend more time studying formally.

My current professional weapon of choice is Python. Although it’s not my favourite language, you can get a lot done with it fairly quickly, as long as you take care to do things the right way. Still trying to get more traction for Rust at work though!