I started learning programming recently — no CS degree, no bootcamp, just building things until they worked. Then my laptop stopped working, and I couldn't afford to repair it.
Instead of waiting, I moved the entire workflow onto an Android phone: GitHub for version control, AI coding tools for the heavy lifting, and a cloud pipeline for deployment. KnoriX has been built almost entirely this way.
"I'd rather ship something real than wait for ideal conditions."
Outside of KnoriX, I've been going deep on knowledge graphs — Neo4j, Cypher, GraphRAG — and shipped a domain-specific RAG tool for the mining industry that you can try live here. Most of what I know, I learned by publishing it in the open and letting it be wrong first.