Thanks for sharing your story, Justin! It was great to hear that.

I was introduced to WordPress in 2009 when I asked a friend of mine how I should spin up an online store. It was fun because I didn't know about themes at all. I just followed the route my friend was going which was creating an entire theme from scratch for every client website he built.

That's how I got into theme development. I remember how overwhelming it was but also how great it felt when things started to work as I had imagined.