I agree with a lot of these points, but some of them feel really specific to the author.
You are not officially considered a programmer anymore until you attend a $2K conference and share a selfie from there.
You’re a programmer if you write computer programs - full stop.
A tutorial isn’t really helpful if it’s not a video recording that takes orders of magnitude longer to understand than its text.
This is really a personal opinion - I get frustrated if a tutorial for something is only in a video - especially on a text-centric medium like programming.
Internet connectivity is the norm and being offline is an exception which is the opposite of how it was back then.
This is a really harmful mindset for the software landscape - I’d argue this is why always-online DRM for video games is even a thing. You can completely alienate an entire audience because of your assumptions about internet connectivity.
I agree with a lot of these points, but some of them feel really specific to the author.
You’re a programmer if you write computer programs - full stop.
This is really a personal opinion - I get frustrated if a tutorial for something is only in a video - especially on a text-centric medium like programming.
This is a really harmful mindset for the software landscape - I’d argue this is why always-online DRM for video games is even a thing. You can completely alienate an entire audience because of your assumptions about internet connectivity.
Those points felt more like a mix of beneficial things and jabs at the modern mentality, culture, and trends than useful differences. Especially…