carly dot website

i make stuff

some things I've done

made wordpress do a lot of things wordpress was not meant to do
figured out how to use trello as a website database backend
presented at tech conferences and meetups
written some poetry that people liked
worked in more programming and scripting languages than I can count

me

My parents showed me what this machine could do. The press of keys turning into words, turning into sentences; the way stories could spin out of the screen. The way I could say "hello, world," and the world would answer.

Beyond QBasic, beyond GOTO—I wandered into the web. Before I could learn to flinch fully from enthusiasm, I spilled it onto Geocities; pages about the things I loved, the >body< made manifest between zeroes and ones. The daydream of all the things I loved. A way to say, here I am.

I have a bachelor's degree in computer science and animate arts from Northwestern University.