they call me Chris. the letters C.A.T. — that’s me, not by accident. born and brewed in Long Island, New York... raised on the early hum of machines and the mystery of what makes them tick. it started when i was eight... Roanoke Elementary... one moment i'm staring at a keyboard, the next i’m wondering why everything in the world isn’t already coded.
the years stacked... tech changed... but i kept tracing the invisible lines between what goes in and what comes out. same principle in a sundial... input the light... output the shadow. computers just learned how to do it faster... cleaner... flashier. but that rule? that core dance of input and output? unshaken. eternal.
i speak quite a few languages... not just English or Dutch... but machine tongues too... like Assembly... BASIC... C... Java... JavaScript... Perl... PHP... Python... Ruby... Visual Basic... XML. if it's programmable, i’ve probably poked at it.
i’ve been full-stack before that was even a buzzword... front-end, back-end... i like knowing the guts and the skin. i built my first UI/UX project decades ago... it was called “Kitty Litter” — and yes, that was a pun.
i sculpt in 3D when the mood strikes. more than 20 custom models out in the world now... just floating around Sketchfab.com if you know where to look. logos? yep. print and web stuff? done that. business cards for places like Detailing, Inc.? also done.
i’m proud of this: i do the job... on time... clean... and i go beyond if there’s space to. details matter. i juggle. i solve. i fix before asked. improvement isn't a buzzword for me — it's just Tuesday. i stay sharp because the world doesn’t wait. and feedback? bring it... that's just more code to refactor.
want to reach me? good.
Chris A. Te Nyenhuis
chris @ catencode.com
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