I’ve been obsessed with computers since I was six. My first real interest wasn't actually programming it was media: editing videos, making thumbnails, uploading random stuff on YouTube.
I eventually got into programming at 12, mostly out of curiosity and random willpower from ADD. In terms of front-end development, I was self-taught with mostly just the Mozilla docs. No YouTube. No tutorials. So I didn’t learn the “right” way just trial, error, and googling everything. That led to some decent wins, unoptimized code, and a lot of headaches... literally. I am currently age 17.
⬇️ Anyways looks at my cool projects below ⬇️
My first real game where I didn’t just spam free models. A random-weapons PvP game built on Roblox.
A lot of the code was based on others, but I still had to understand and modify it. This is the moment where I count my real dev journey starting.
Built a Discord bot with simple moderation commands. Used someone else's template though.
This was probably the most impactful project I ever made. I ran a proxy/games/emulator site for about 2 years.
Started as a Google Sites, then moved to a standalone version for more control. The code was messy, but it did the job. We've reached over 200,000 views and had hundreds of daily users.
I've never monetized it mostly because I was too young and didn’t know how. Eventually, all the Freenom domains expired and Google deleted my analytics, so the only proof left is a YouTube video with 100K views. I might have a picture of the analytics somewhere in my phone.
I tried to make a MHTML v4, but lost motivation. I realized I’d have to catch up on years of bypasses and new methods. Probably best to move on.
A bot that farms Microsoft Rewards using Selenium.
Honestly, Python wasn't too hard I didn’t need tutorials, just documentation. Maintained it for about 3 months before stopping.
Rebuilt the Windows Notepad app using HTML and JS.
Nothing huge, but it was probably the cleanest code I had written at the time.I genuinely wanted to learn Java and C++, but it just never clicked fully.
I'd often start learning, then take long breaks and forget everything (x3).
Still, I played around with Minecraft launchers and other stuff gained somewhat of an understanding.
Made a user script to enable free Discord themes without Nitro.
It was pretty bad, so I ended up just linking people to a better version.
YouTube was testing a new UI and I hated it. So I made an extension to bring the old layout back.
This was the first time I ever got donations. That felt awesome.
Stopped publishing stuff. Mostly just made simple tweaks to websites for myself UI fixes, redirecting links, etc.
Was getting burnt out so took a long hiatus.
Duolingo removed unlimited lives for school accounts. I went full “reverse engineer mode” and figured out how to patch it.
Took a full day and reminded me why I stopped coding. Headaches, annoyance, and frustration. I used a lot of AI to transfer it to an extension to be honest.
To be clear, the patch was discovered by me not AI. AI only helped me make it distributable (into an extension).