[limograf]

In different ways, most things I've done have been meaningful. I learnt to code through cofounding a massive non-profit fanfic website with my friends and that build helped... me! I was living in poverty on welfare and had no way to go to school as I was the sole carer for my quadriplegic family member. Then I took what I'd learned and worked on a new project, connecting profoundly disabled people and roboticists to explore the world through drones. Nowadays I run a free code school for refugees and other people living in poverty, where professional developers volunteer to teach and mentor the learners so they can get good jobs in tech and start their own lives in this country.

Interspersed with those three big projects I've done contracting and agency work, mainly in Accessibility FE, and that has been a bit less motivating to work on, though it's useful, I think, to make all sites and apps work properly for as many people as possible. I've always stayed in the arts or academia for those contracts. I've never worked at a megacorp or for any kind of prestigious employer, so I've never really had to worry about the ethics of an employer. (Obviously I've never been paid loads either. :D )

I count myself so lucky to be able to spend my days like this. I leap out of bed to go to work in the morning. I recommend it!

[cyber_kinetist]

> cofounding a massive non-profit fanfic website

Perhaps are you one of the cofounders of AO3 (Archive of Our Own)?

[limograf]

Aye - I wrote the front end, a loooong time ago now.

[cyber_kinetist]

Well, thanks for all the work you’ve done! It is one of the best creative gems of the Internet, and the site is very well-designed.

[limograf]

You are completely welcome. It's an absolute joy, that place!