MY STORY ✿ vampelium.txt ===================================== It started with a feeling. Not a bug, not a tutorial — a feeling that the internet could be so much more beautiful than it was. I'm Vampelium (she/her), a Canadian dev and designer who fell in love with code because it lets me build worlds. Chapter 1: The Aesthetic Awakening I didn't start with "hello world." I started by trying to make something pretty. CSS before JavaScript. Design before logic. I wanted pixels to feel like poetry. That obsession with beauty led me deeper: how does a page render? What makes an animation feel alive? Why does some code feel elegant and other code feel like a pile of laundry? Chapter 2: Woman in Tech ✿ Being a woman in tech means you often have to prove you belong in spaces you built. I stopped proving and started just building. Louder. More boldly. More me. The best revenge is a pixel-perfect deploy on a Friday. Chapter 3: Canada 🍁 to Japan 🌸 I grew up in Canada, shaped by its winters and its warmth. But my heart has always drifted east — toward Japan, its design philosophy, its attention to detail, its art. One day soon, I'll build from Tokyo. Until then I build with that same intention: every pixel placed with care. What's Next ✨ More beautiful things. More playful experiments. A shop full of aesthetic digital goods. Maybe Japan. Definitely more matcha. ===================================== Written: somewhere between midnight and 4am