About Cody

After several failed attempts at higher education and a tour of duty in Afghanistan with the US Navy, I found myself working the graveyard shift as a CNC laser operator—hating my life. I had started teaching myself to code as early as 2012 but never considered it a real career option. That changed when I was six months away from earning an engineering degree I no longer cared about. I decided to take the plunge and go all in on software development.

I spent roughly 30 uninterrupted years in the “middle of nowhere” Kansas before making the leap in 2018—moving across the country to Portland, Oregon. After two years in my first tech job, I relocated to Colombia in 2020. Since then, I’ve been living outside Bogotá, working remotely for companies worldwide, and running my own development agency, JokinglyBadTech LLC.

Outside of work, I enjoy weightlifting, traveling, learning guitar, and tinkering with my Raspberry Pi. I also love smoking meats and cheeses. In 2024, I adopted my dog, Max, from a rescue shelter, and he’s been my companion ever since.

I shipped the first iteration of this website in 2016 through GitHub Pages with just HTML & CSS. Over the years, it has mostly been ReactJS using frameworks like Astro, Gatsby, and NextJS. Hosting was primarily through Vercel, but I now use fly.io. This iteration is built with Astro, DaisyUI, and TailwindCSS.