About Me
I’m Sam Storino, a software development engineer for Amazon living in Seattle! I’ve always had an interest in computers, more so on the hardware side at first. I fell in love with programming after hours of failure and misery turned into that sweet, sweet satisfaction of having your first application run.
Creating something out of nothing, now that’s pretty cool.
You know what else is pretty cool? Creating something tangible, having a physical real-world result. I’ve been into woodworking ever since I was a kid, something I picked up from my dad. Living in the city has limited my capacity for the craft, but has driven me to find new ways to express that physical creativity.
What’s this site for?
For me, I suppose. But also for you! Admittedly selfish, I started this site to document the things I’ve done and the lessons I’ve learned. As a byproduct of that, I’m hopeful some of my words will have hit home with you.
What I’m up to now
- Moved to the Pacific Northwest with my wife and our two cats, Artemis and Luna
- Working for Amazon as a software development engineer
- Completed the automatic cat laser pointer toy
- Thinking up my next project
Updated 11/17/2019
Inspired by Tania Rascia, who was inspired by Leo Babauta, who of course was inspired by Derek Sivers.
What I’m using
- MacBook Pro 2012 (still kickin’)
- Android Studio, IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code for development
- Git for version control
- BlueHost for hosting
- WordPress for CMS
- Lighthouse (free) for theming, customized through child theming
- Redis for caching
- HangFire for queuing
- Google Docs for, well, docs
- Spotify for jams
- Pinterest for inspiration
- Xamarin and Android Studio for mobile development
- Xbox for gaming (plans to work on a PC build)
- SmartThings for home automation
- Durgod Taurus K320 Mechanical Keyboard for typing
Updated 01/10/2020
Inspired by Tania Rascia
