Joel Overton

Software Engineer, Web Developer, and Consultant in Covent Garden, United Kingdom

Joel Overton

Software Engineer, Web Developer, and Consultant in Covent Garden, United Kingdom

It started with a Commodore VIC-20 in 1992.

That a Commodore VIC-20 was starting anything in '92 was quite remarkable; it was born in 1980, making it twice my age at the time. Had I realised that, I might have treated it with a bit more respect.

3583 BYTES FREE.
READY.
10 PRINT "WILLY";
20 GOTO 10
RUN

So began my career as a front-end developer.

Some twenty-five years later I now head up Front-End development for digital change agency Beamly. These days the codebase no longer fits inside 3583 bytes, but the output is broadly similar.