"FADE IN on a lone developer, cursor blinking like a blank page—paralyzed by impostor syndrome yet maddened for answers. Inspired by Adaptation, this talk treats ten years of “just hacking JavaScript” as the scenes of an unwritten screenplay. Follow my journey from mis-wiring an Arduino over WebSockets to wrestling with retry logic in serverless Lambdas, each hiccup revealing hidden lessons in logic gates, data structures, algorithms, and computation theory. More than a series of technical anecdotes, it’s a story about vulnerability: admitting “I don’t know” becomes the fuel for confidence, and only in reflection do we see our progress. By the final CUT, you’ll have a narrative-driven framework to turn any production problem into a stealth CS masterclass—and compile uncertainty into executable confidence."