PERRY, MARY — n. BUILDER OF THINGS
I write code to solve problems — database-first, full-stack, occasionally for fun. Projects, talks, and small games, filed below with the score kept honestly.
an off-by-one spelling game. change a letter, make a word, keep the streak. hesitation allowed; repeats aren’t.
PRESS START →make words out of whatever plate you see. argue about which acronyms should count. the passenger is always right.
PRESS START →The stacks got me first — encyclopedias, indexes, reference systems. I wanted to be an academic librarian; the MLS reading list introduced me to databases, and that was that. I’ve been a database-first thinker ever since. Off the clock: cello, ukulele, claymation experiments, and cookbooks I have no intention of cooking from.