Hello, I'm Steven.

I've been obsessed with space since I was a kid. Not in a "I want to be an astronaut" way—more like "why is that star red and that one blue and what's the math behind it" way. Classic.

These days I actually go outside with a telescope, chase dark skies, and track what's visible on any given night. I also just... think about it a lot. The scale of things. The fact that we're on a rock orbiting a fairly ordinary star in a galaxy of 200 billion of them. It's grounding in a weird way.

This is how AstroSKY happened. I wanted to know what was in the sky tonight. Three months later I had a full web app with observation logging, Messier catalog tracking, and ISS pass predictions. Normal hobby progression.

I'm autistic and have ADHD, which means my brain runs on hyperfocus and pattern recognition. When something clicks, I disappear into it for weeks. When it doesn't, I physically cannot make myself care—no amount of "just do it" helps.

This turns out to be pretty useful for building software. The deep dives that turn hobbies into apps? That's hyperfocus. The debugging intuition that spots what's wrong before I can explain why? Pattern matching. The way I build tools that scratch my own itch? Inability to tolerate friction.

The downside is I have seventeen half-finished projects and sometimes forget to eat. Trade-offs.