Jason Michael

I’m a software engineer, problem solver, tinkerer, gamer, lifelong student, and full-time geek.

My first brush with code was in the 7th grade, guiding a little triangle called the “Turtle” across the screen with BASIC and Logo. I didn’t know it then, but that triangle sparked an interest that’s still going strong. Since then, I’ve explored everything from HTML and Java in school to PHP and C++ in college - eventually finding my way to the web, where I’ve been building ever since.

These days, I focus on thoughtful engineering - crafting intuitive, accessible UIs, improving performance, figuring out how to make things work a little better, and occasionally breaking things just to learn how they work. That instinct doesn’t stop at software either. I’ve always enjoyed taking things apart and tinkering, from self-hosted experiments and hardware projects to getting distracted by something completely unrelated and needing to understand how it works.

Outside work, video games have been a constant in my life - not just as a hobby, but as something that’s shaped my curiosity, creativity, and how I think about systems. I’m a sucker for a good world, an interesting story, and the kind of lore that makes you want to keep digging, whether that’s in games, anime, movies, books, or around a tabletop. I have a soft spot for the strange and unknown, cosmic horror especially, and I get invested pretty easily, so there’s always some new world, story, or idea pulling me in.

That’s more or less what this website is for.

It’s my little corner of the internet - somewhere to share what I’m working on, learning, or obsessed with. Sometimes code, sometimes ideas. Always me.