hello, i'm ray 👋🏻
i build pixel-perfect UIs at paynet

Welcome to a tiny corner of the internet I somehow ended up owning!

My love for programming didn't start in a classroom or a textbook. It began with my 10-year-old self tinkering with PHP and XAMPP while accompanied by a random Indian guy on YouTube teaching me how to spin up a private Habbo server.

It was messy and I didn't know what I was doing. But seeing something I made respond to me for the first time felt like magic. That was enough to spark something that never really went away.

Since then, coding stopped being just about getting things to work and became about getting things right. I'm not a prodigy and I'm definitely not fast. I just have a stubborn need to care. I'll happily spend an unreasonable amount of time polishing something most people would call "good enough."

I've got big plans for myself, and I'm probably still at the beginning of them. There are too many things I want to build, too many skills I want to earn the slow way, and too many ideas sitting half-formed in my head.

This site is where some of those thoughts land: A mix of experiments, reflections, side projects, and the occasional ramble when I'm thinking out loud.

None of this is finished. I'm not either. But if you're here, thanks for stopping by!