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      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.

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        Those points felt more like a mix of beneficial things and jabs at the modern mentality, culture, and trends than useful differences. Especially…

        A significant portion of programming is now done on the foosball table.

    🇬🇧 The UK geoblock is lifted, hopefully permanently.