Life résumé

Twenty years building for the web, which is how I learned computer science. I build systems, I teach them, and I never stop shooting.

Year by year

    1. Born Aug 19, 1983

    1. University of Georgia

      Left for the real world, and learned it the hard way.

    1. c.

      All in on a camera

      A Fuji X-T4 and a 56mm lens: an investment in my creative future.

    2. Music videos, with SearingSun

      Edited two for Gringo Star, and shot and edited The Rishis’ “Coloring.”

    1. Zero to Fun

      Functional programming in PHP, released as a package anyone can install.

    2. Point Free Code

      My own company, under three words: create, educate, empower.

    3. Accent CMS

      My own content management system, built in one summer after two earlier tries: 846 commits, May to July.

    4. Never stop shooting

      Juneteenth, a show at Cat Eye Creative, slow mornings at Condessa Coffee, a night at The EARL.

    5. Mark Design

      A design language that a person, or an AI, can build a whole website from.

    6. Legal name change

      As fortune would have it, on August 19, my birthday, the judge signed the order to legally change my name to “J’Michael Ray Stevens.”

      Hello World!

Updated September 2026