TLDR; hand-coded HTML & CSS, semantic, highly digestable, reconfigurable, front-end with a focus on user-experience.
My family got a computer in the early 90's and I started out using Windows 3.1 and AOL to build web pages about bands. I loved that I could customize them and that I could make it look more advanced using code.
In middle school I would write code by hand on bound paper notebooks and two friends in particular would critique it. I was recording Green Day songs via a walkman and 1/8" cable into my compyters mic-input and posting 15 seconds wav files to Geocities when I was 12.
Freshman year of high school I got a job making $100 an hour building html table layouts for a fortune 100 corporation and I gave up really caring about formal education at that point. I used the money to buy a Gibson Studio and Marshall halfstack.
A friend encourged me to learn Cold Fusion in addition to Flash, as I rounded out my full stack and design focused front-end career.
I worked at Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, CA for a time and created an interactive virtual tour with 360degree equirectangular photography (that I took and processed) and custom flash interfaces. I jumped around a lot between design, web layouts, and cold fusion dynamic database driven websites.
The backbone of my web development methodology is based on semantic html and css. I still write code by hand, and generally prefer that vs using a content management system like wordpress. Though my programming knowledge aparantly peaked in php and so to this day I use a minimalist php framework that I created. Now I augment that code rather quickly with ChatGPT.
I left my tech job to learn how to tattoo in 2008 and stopped keeping up with the latest technologies. The iphone had just been released. Facebook and Instagram were just getting popular. At my job we were using a really cool templated front-end system developed by the same friend who taught me cold fusion. It was right before the switch to Javascript, which I totally missed out on.
Between 2008-2017 I ran some wordpress websites for people (and myself) and made some custom themes, but generally avoided web development and was busy tattooing. It wouldn't be until I accidently invented a way to play a Soundwave Tattoo back using augmented reality that I got back into tech and writing code.
When I founded Skin Motion and we started building the website and app I had to learn the modern architecture and so I quickly caught up on React and Saas, git and virtual machines. Google cloud vs AWS, access restictions, payment processors. There was a lot to catch up on really fast.
Now I can read and compile javascript and python in Docker or locally. I keep my personal projects in Github so I can track my progress on them and have historical copies of my work over time. I design my wireframes in Figma, I use MidJourney and Photoshop generative AI to make assets in addition to a library I've collected over 25 years. I take my wireframes or comps from Figma and then write the code for them in Sublime, and FTP it to a Cpanel server like a real Millenial.
ChatGPT has unlocked super powers and hyper-rapid development cycles. The hardest thing now is figuring out what to build.
My favorite part about building and publishing online is that everything is always a work in progress and will continue to get better over time, which is the opposite of tattooing. Having that balance between ephemeral and everlasting was really important to my overall approach to creative problem solving.