We all start with a little hacking

This is such a wonderful little essay about what it means to take on a computer, what inspires us is playing, hacking and mucking about with our tools. Never forget: no technology's intended purpose is more important than what you want to do with it.

That is not a bug in how he’s using the computer. That is the entire mechanism by which a kid becomes a developer. Or a designer. Or a filmmaker. Or whatever it is that comes after spending thousands of hours alone in a room with a machine that was never quite right for what you were asking of it.