It took me some time to discover programming. Looking back, perhaps this was because I found some of the same enjoyment and challenge in writing words that I today find in writing code. Like a friend once put it in reference to a paper by Felinne Hermans – 'programming is writing is programming, for reals'.

Today it is strange to think that there was a time when this way of deconstructing and thinking about the world was foreign to me, or at least was something I approached through words rather than functions. These days code is part of the everyday and a script takes shape in the shell at the vaguest hint that a task might repeat. When I first bought an apartment, it was with the help of a script that scraped adverts for properties and compared aspects of each to award a number of points that came to be surprisingly reflective of how willing I would be to live there.

I may one day get around to providing some details about these project, but until then a few lines of code can be found on GitHub.