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I'm growing very tired of dansup's nonsense already, and by extension, how many people are falling for his whole 'strongman' theater.
We do not need or want more dudes trying to claim the spotlight for fedi, thanks. The loud people are rarely the ones doing the important work, despite their own claims. And code usually isn't the important work either.
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To elaborate on that last point a bit: anyone can write some code. I am saying this as someone who does this professionally at a significant hourly rate. Sure, quality is going to vary between programmers, but the 'writing code' itself really isn't the difficult part.
You know what's the actual hard work? Dealing with the human factors. Understanding people's needs. Resolving conflicts. Fostering healthy and independent, resilient communities. Dealing with bigotry and other toxic behaviour. Doing this for years on end. Weaving all of these factors into the *design* of your code.
Notably, all those things that software developers are infamous for failing to do, and that are frequently feminine-coded or branded as "unskilled".
I really cannot emphasize strongly enough how much you *shouldn't* take someone as a role model just because they write a lot of code, or even nominally popular code.
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@joepie91 I don't code
but I came to not trust people who present as solitary genius
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And all this leads to a bit of an assignment for the reader - consider this question for yourself:
Based on who you see as a role model, which types of work are you valuing, which ones aren't you, and why? And what are the implications of that choice?
(Responding with an answer is not necessary; the point is the introspection)