"I was raised by my mother, a former high school art teacher (and a gifted artist in her own right), who exposed me to a lot of different tools and materials for painting and drawing. I'm convinced that's what pointed me in the direction of web development, even though we're talking years before the internet of AOL and 56K dial-up modems."
"Naturally, everything looks like code when I'm staring at a blank canvas. That's whether the canvas is paper, a screen, some Figma artboard, or what have you. Code is my horseradish and I've been marinating in this horseradish ocean for quite a while. The work is done in a different medium."
Exposure to varied visual art tools and materials can point a person toward web development even before widespread consumer internet. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related technologies function as artistic media for creating interfaces and visual work. Coding can be regarded as a brush for producing creative digital works, and long practice creates a tendency to see blank canvases through that medium. Producing and performing music uses a different medium where sounds—vibrations from instruments or digital waves from samples—serve as brushes. Many concepts, tasks, and challenges overlap between coding and music production, but the tools, processes, and canvases remain materially different, creating unique challenges.
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