In the last few years I've traveled to many places. I've been to Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, Dublin, Paris, Seattle, SF, LA, San Diego.
But today I find myself in a small village in the middle of nowhere, hidden deep in Romanian plains.
This is where I come from.
Raised in a house with no running water, sinks, or indoors toilets, by people working these lands.
When I was still a kid my dad moved to Spain to work in construction and brought us to settle there.
But things didn't go particularly well in Spain either after the 2007 housing crash.
And yet here I am now, writing fucking compilers and VMs for agents in Rust.
I overcame poverty and helped my family purely by writing insane amounts of code.
"You can just do things" has never been truer than in tech.