Welcome to Syntax, where we deliver tasty treats for web developers. Welcome, welcome, today we are wrapping a part two of our two part origin stories where in part one I talked a bit about my career in

sort of non-conventional growth in web development and today we're going to be

hearing Wes's origin story, basically,

how he got to where he is.

West Boss.

Awesome, thanks so much.

Cool.

Well, I want to start things off.

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All right, so let's talk about my origin story here.

I've been at this for quite a long time and I have somewhat of a similar story to Scott

But I thought it'd be kind of interesting to dive deep into all of the different pieces. So I have always been super into computers.

My dad was sort of in IT all of his life.

We always had a computer.

We were first kids on the block to have internet and part of being on the internet in the early days I don't know I was in I think when I first really got super

interested in in building websites was I'm in about fifth or grade five or

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