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This morning in my house -
Son 9: “Why did you sleep so late”
Me: “I stayed up all night hacking” raised eyebrow smug-dad look
Son in disbelief: “Then why aren’t you going to jail right now?”
Me: “Well hacking doesn’t just mean breaking into something or doing something illegal, it’s writing code, fixing things, building something...”

I proceed to tell him how I stayed up learning to build a simple fidget app then show it to him and my 14yo daughter. They fight to see who gets to try it first to find the “secret” I added in, a special screen that shows up when you do a non-intuitive swipe up on the correct scenes. A few minutes of fun are had as they take turns playing with the fidgets and unlocking the secret screen. 🧵1/3

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Actually wanting to learn and build for this first time in ages because of the inspiration I get watching the building, iterating, and experimenting happening on the purple app. The last few weeks I have been grinding, studying, and finally over the last week starting to tinker and build. This weekend has been fruitful and my kids see me inspired, which inspires them and gives them the opening to be excited about learning and building for themselves.

As a parent I’m always looking for those moments to engage with my kids, let them ask questions, teach them things, share the passions and excitement for creativity to let them imagine where they can go and what they can do. To get one of those moments when I am also feeling inspired, gaining momentum, and excited for where things are headed is a great feeling. Thanks to all the builders, devs, and smart people doing crazy things around here, sharing tools and tips, getting me hyped and no longer intimidated to get back into coding. /🧵

After I show them and explain a bit of how it and the app (HYPE HTML5 Animator) work, my son gets excited and says he wants to show me the games and videos HE’s made in his school’s extracurricular technology class on a website called Scratch. He shows me the projects and a bit of how the site’s app works. It’s actually a clever visualization of code structure and mechanics to teach kids how pieces of code combine to build actions and interaction, which I start to explain to him.

This entire moment was produced largely by Farcaster. Over the course of a close to a year here, I have slowly and surely been dev pilled. I’ve always had the capability to do interactive design and motion graphics but it’s been a long time since I’ve built something with code, let alone WANTED TO CODE. 🧵2/3