Tom on the Internet

About

Name
Thomas Steven

Email
tom@tomontheinternet.com

Location

St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

About an hour from Toronto


Links

GitHub

YouTube

LinkedIn


Family
Yes

Occupation

Software Developer

Full stack

Mostly web

Since 2017


Nationality
Canadian

Education

Master of Education (MEd)

University of Missouri

Bachelor of English Literature

Laurentian University


Text Editor
Neovim

Font
IBM Plex Mono

Colorscheme

Tokyo Night Moon

This site uses this palette.


Learning

Elixir and Phoenix

This site is a Phoenix site.


Spoken Languages

English  

Korean   

French   

Technologies I've used a fair bit

  • AWS
  • Angular
  • Bash
  • Docker
  • Git
  • GitHub Actions
  • Go
  • HTML
  • JSON
  • JavaScript
  • Laravel
  • Linux
  • MySQL
  • Neovim
  • PHP
  • React
  • SQL
  • Terraform
  • TypeScript

Selected Timeline

1982

  • Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

1984

  • Move to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

2001

  • Enroll in computer science degree because I liked computers.

2002

  • Drop/fail out of computer science degree without ever understanding what a funciton was.
  • Move to West Africa for a year.

2003

  • Move back to Canada.
  • Enroll in English literature degree.

2007

  • Complete English literature degree.
  • Move to South Korea to teach English.

2010

  • Enroll in Masters of Education degree.

2012

  • Complete Masters of Education degree.
  • Obtain job as university English teacher.

2013

  • Get married.

2014

  • Move to Toronto, Canada.
  • Get job in Education.
  • Start self-teaching programming so I can quit job.

2017

  • Quit difficult job in education.
  • Obtain first Programmer Job at Humi HR.
  • Become a father.

2020

  • Buy a house in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

2021

  • Become a father again.

2024

  • Obtain second Programmer Job at NMBR Payroll.