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> Since I learned to code forty years ago, one thing that has mostly, mostly, changed about programming is that most developers no longer have to manage their own memory. Even getting that going took a long long time.

I took a few stupid years trying to be the CEO of a growing company during which I didn’t have time to code, and when I came back to web programming, after a break of about 10 years, I found Node, React, and other goodies, which are, don’t get me wrong, amazing? Really really great? But I also found that it took approximately the same amount of work to make a CRUD web app as it always has, and that there were some things (like handing a file upload, or centering) that were, shockingly, still just as randomly difficult as they were in VBScript twenty years ago.


ref:

> Since I learned to code forty years ago, one thing that has mostly, mostly, changed about programming is that most developers no longer have to manage their own memory. Even getting that going took a long long time.

I took a few stupid years trying to be the CEO of a growing company during which I didn’t have time to code, and when I came back to web programming, after a break of about 10 years, I found Node, React, and other goodies, which are, don’t get me wrong, amazing? Really really great? But I also found that it took approximately the same amount of work to make a CRUD web app as it always has, and that there were some things (like handing a file upload, or centering) that were, shockingly, still just as randomly difficult as they were in VBScript twenty years ago.


ref: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2021/06/02/kinda-a-big-announcement/

when i decided to teach myself how to code i needed an unofficial mentor

I derided that it would be Jeff Atwood, and the list of programming books that he has on coding horror

few people have impacted the world as he did

love the idea of programming as a craft

how do you approach the practice so that you can perform it with the patience and care of it being a craft?

with ai it has gotten worse for me. i feel impatient. and i just want to get things done. like the joy was emptied by a necessity to accomplish something practical

love coding horror and jeff!
have a similar story myself, learnt a lot abt programming as a craft just by reading uncle bob and stallman.