My top 3 questions:

* Is this a one-off toy, or is it part of a larger interest in skeuomorphic[1] design?

* Since your site[2] mentions you first tried to write code seriously at 27, did a prior interest in cars help lead you to programming?

* If not cars, did any interests help or hinder you?

1. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/skeuomo...

2. https://trizuliak.com

Hi, sorry about the delay of getting back to this. Re 1 - yes, this was just a one off fun project and until now I haven't heard the word skeumorphic. Re 2 - I spent full 5 years working in automotive industry after graduating in Mechanical engineering and it was out of necessity. I moved to Scotland for personal reasons and thought I will easily find another job with my previous mech eng/automotive skills. Turned out Scotland is not the best for these kind of jobs so I stumbled upon coding. And to be fair I never looked back. As much as I love automotive, I love the fact that you can create cool stuff just from your laptop from pretty much anywhere in the world. Re 3 - I think engineering degree in general was a good aid in thinking about problem solving, but to be honest, I was always (and maybe still am) very average at things. But now I see that if you just stick to a project and actually ship it, it's much more then majority of other people who only keep it at the idea stage.

I love the skeuomorphic timer design. The reflections and surface modeling are brilliant. I will be greedy and ask – could you share how you made it? Thanks!

Not greedy at all, I'm happy to share. I basically just followed this tutorial on CSS Tricks - https://css-tricks.com/lets-make-one-of-those-fancy-scrollin... - but changes the images of airpods with frames from video of a 1 hour long actual physical pomodoro timer.