Howdy my name is Wayne Rockett

After working in the transport industry for 20 years, I've had something of a huge change in direction and started to try and learn about this coding lark.

• 🌍  I'm based in West Yorkshire, UK.
• ✉️  You can contact me at wayne@waynerockett.com
• 🧠  I'm learning everything I can.
• ⚡  In my spare time I write and host murder mystery nights

• 💻 Rockett Viewer: Working (slowly) on an extension for VS Code, Rockett Viewer, which is available on the VS Code Marketplace. 🔗 link
• 💻 Rockett Timer: Online stopwatch, countdown and meeting timer. 🔗 link
• 💻 York Code: Just for fun online coding platform, for the Yorkshire dialect. 🔗 link
• 🚧 Sprint Planning Simulator: Yep, it is what it sounds like, a weird sprint planning simulator game.
• 🚧 Recovery Tracker: Web app for helping with recovery from bowerl surgery.

Code Wars: Top 100 for TypeScript (ssh, don't ask about CSS Battle)

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I'm one of the generation of bedroom coders from the ZX Spectrum days, but I was always unsure if it was something I wanted to do as a career. So, as a student, I split my studies between computers, business, and education (I was always being pushed towards being a teacher).

At the end of my first year as a student, I presented to prospective students how computers could be used in the transport industry. A few years later, I was working in the transport industry. Coding hadn't quite disappeared from my life, though I eventually didn't own a computer myself. I would still code at work to make life easier for myself and sometimes my co-workers.

Upon leaving the transport industry, I jumped around a few jobs—usually helping people improve how their office ran by writing small scripts or apps—until I was offered the chance to roll back the years and become a developer once more.