I Spent 20+ Years in Industrial Maintenance. Now I’m Learning to Build Software. For most of my career, I worked in industrial maintenance as a boilermaker. Shutdowns, turnarounds, and repairs in refinery environments where systems either hold under pressure—or fail completely. There is no “it mostly works” in that world. Only working, or not working. That mindset didn’t disappear when I started learning software. It followed me. ⸻ I’m not just “learning to code.” I’m building...