[Zack_puffs]

What's the moment in your life that you are most proud of in your life.
For me it was the moment when I was 10 and gave my first speech on internet violence. And I won the first price. I still give speeches and now I'm a professional public speaker because of that proud moment in my life.

[Bish0pQ]

Probably when I developed and hosted my first website. Took me a while to learn the programming part and the hosting part. Especially since I was new to Linux. So once I had everything up and running, I felt really great. Never had the same feeling again after creating something unfortunely. Once you start developing for work you somewhat lose the "proudness", or at least that's the case for me.

[Zack_puffs]

Probably when I developed and hosted my first website. Took me a while to learn the programming part and the hosting part. Especially since I was new to  Linux. So once I had everything up and running, I felt really great. Never had the same feeling again after creating something unfortunely. Once you start developing for work you somewhat lose the "proudness", or at least that's the case for me.

that's an amazing proud moment. I wish I could get a website running on my own.

[Bish0pQ]

Probably when I developed and hosted my first website. Took me a while to learn the programming part and the hosting part. Especially since I was new to  Linux. So once I had everything up and running, I felt really great. Never had the same feeling again after creating something unfortunely. Once you start developing for work you somewhat lose the "proudness", or at least that's the case for me.

that's an amazing proud moment. I wish I could get a website running on my own.

The most difficult part is just beginning with it. Overcome the fear that you will fail and just take it step by step. First, you create an HTML page with the content you want. Then you make sure you have the layout you want. After that, you make it more beautiful with CSS. Javascript to make it do stuff. You don't need to start with the big frameworks like Vue or React even though there is a lot built-in that nowadays.

There is so much knowledge that you can find everywhere, tutorials, even complete starter templates, but it's better to just try. Fail 10 times and you won't make the same mistake the 11th time (not always true but usually), just copy paste and you learned nothing.

[mothered]

I'd say the time I gained back-end access to one of the biggest real estate firms In the US.

I had full raid on their systems, whereby I could've done whatever I pleased with over 100k properties listed for sale/lease. Not to mention the array of personal credentials at my disposal. Of course, there was no malicious Intent whatsoever.

[Oni]

Graduating Magna Cum Laude. At first I wasn't very serious about college, so it wasn't something I thought I could achieve.

[Zack_puffs]

Probably when I developed and hosted my first website. Took me a while to learn the programming part and the hosting part. Especially since I was new to  Linux. So once I had everything up and running, I felt really great. Never had the same feeling again after creating something unfortunely. Once you start developing for work you somewhat lose the "proudness", or at least that's the case for me.

that's an amazing proud moment. I wish I could get a website running on my own.

The most difficult part is just beginning with it. Overcome the fear that you will fail and just take it step by step. First, you create an HTML page with the content you want. Then you make sure you have the layout you want. After that, you make it more beautiful with CSS. Javascript to make it do stuff. You don't need to start with the big frameworks like Vue or React even though there is a lot built-in that nowadays.

There is so much knowledge that you can find everywhere, tutorials, even complete starter templates, but it's better to just try. Fail 10 times and  you won't make the same mistake the 11th time (not always true but usually), just copy paste and you learned nothing.

oka so the first part of what you said damn inspiring. But in the end it's like pop goes the inspiration 😅. But definitely I will use this advice to my fullest.

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I'd say the time I gained back-end access to one of the biggest real estate firms In the US.

I had full raid on their systems, whereby I could've done whatever I pleased with over 100k properties listed for sale/lease. Not to mention the array of personal credentials at my disposal. Of course, there was no malicious Intent whatsoever.

Now that is pretty epic in my opinion. But yeah thank goodness you didn't have a malicious intent.

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Graduating Magna Cum Laude. At first I wasn't very serious about college, so it wasn't something I thought I could achieve.

that's great that you went through college. How was it?

[mothered]

thank goodness you didn't have a malicious intent.

My behavior Is not maliciously-Inclined, and never will be.

[Zack_puffs]

thank goodness you didn't have a malicious intent.

My behavior Is not maliciously-Inclined, and never will be.

respect 💯. Love the values you've set.

[botts]

I'm not proud of much, I don't feel like a good/kind/achieved person at all.
But I remember feeling proud of myself at age 16.
My parents were separated and I was living with my dad, it was about a 4 hour drive from his house to my mom's.
-Stayed with my mum for a weekend to visit her.

-Came back home to my dad, as I open the door I see 3 other men who I don't know, and my dad- with a needle in his arm. Drugs.

-Me coming home wakes up the 3 men who were asleep. They shove me into the wall and tell me to shut up. One man ensures I don't move whilst the other 2 men start browsing the house for stuff to steal. They steal my dad's PC, my laptop, my monitor, my watch and my dad's wallet (which because he was into drugs, he had a lot of cash in) along with a few more items, anything worth any money.

-They leave.

-My dad is pretty much unresponsive. He could acknowledge that I was trying to ask him if I should call the police, but he said leave me, I'm fine.

-I go to all my 3 good friends' houses, and ask them to come over to my house, tell them it's an emergency. By the time I get back, my dad is somewhat responsive. He sees them coming though the door and tells them to fuck off (probably scared they will see the drugs and tell authorities/police. I tell them thanks anyway but he seems ok, they go back home.

-My dad absolutely screams at me. I was sat there crying, he was screaming so loud that my dog comes over to me. My dad stands up, grabs my dog and proceeds to kick her to death in front of me. Kicking her and holding her in place until she was nearly dead, then sat down for a few minutes. She died, likely of internal bleeding.

-I grab a knife and walk to the door. I specifically remember him pretending that I was being overdramatic.

-I go to my friend's house. I had my GCSE Exams the next day so I knew I needed to stay in town for at least another week.

-Completed exams, and got A* in 4 subjects and A in the other two, massively unexpected result especially the day after everything that just happened.
My head was spinning, I was in such shock I could barely concentrate. I'm not sure how I did it, but it's definitely the biggest achievement of my life. And I never told anyone what happened since. I knew I'd just lost my dog, my friends (because I knew I'd have to move away) and my stuff.
A few months later my dad tried to commit suicide, but failed in doing so. Not sure what he's upto now, don't really care.