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About Me (Daniel) 💭 and AMA (ask me anything) thread!
👋 Hello and welcome to Web Art & Science Discussions.
I'm Daniel Archibald. Full-stack engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, serverless nerd, and — maybe most importantly — a completely self-taught developer who figured it all out the hard way so you don't have to.
No CS degree. No bootcamp. Just years of building real things, breaking them, and shipping them anyway.
- What do I actually do for work?
By day I work in cybersecurity and identity infrastructure — building NIST IAL2-compliant verification systems for Fortune 500 clients. Think: the code that confirms you are actually you at a federal compliance level.
By night (and weekends, and honestly most of the time) I'm writing, and hacking on side projects. I've built a YouTube trending scraper, a GitHub-powered blog engine, Postman automation suites, and a pile of quirky apps that exist mostly because I thought they'd be cool. JavaScript and serverless are my weapons of choice. Making art is the philosophy.
I've also given public tech talks — including my career transition story: "From Grocery Aisles to Coding" for Black Orlando Tech
- Why did I build this community?
Here's the thing: most dev education is built around getting you employed. Land the job. Crack the interview. Pass the test. And I will help you do that — I know exactly what it takes.
But that's not why I love this stuff.
I believe the web is a human-first medium. It's art. It's expression. It's a living, breathing expansion of what it means to create something and share it with the world. Somewhere along the way, we turned it into a business tool first and forgot that part.
This community exists to fix that. I want you to get the job and fall in love with digital craft as a passion. Most people hit week one and realize they were missing something they didn't have a word for yet. That word is art.
- What do I want to build?
Right now I'm working on a game — a space where community members can hang out and explore the web together. Not a Discord. Not another LMS. Something weirder and more interesting than that. You'll see.
The courses and projects I teach here cover:
- JavaScript (real JS — not just "make a button change color")
- Serverless architecture and AWS
- Building and deploying production web apps
- The creative, expressive side of frontend development
- How to think like an engineer when you're self-taught
So, if you're a developer of any level who wants more than a job description, or a curious person who wants to understand how the web actually works under the hood, or someone who suspects they might actually love this stuff if someone just showed them how to do it... then you've come to the right place.
You don't need a degree. You don't need a background. You just need curiosity, and a web browser.
Let's go build something weird together!
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