Programming

Programming is the easy part, and a useless skill on its own.

If you can only program in one language, you can't program.

C++ is the single best language to learn programming.

Stupid mistakes you make are not bugs, at least not for you.

Front end and back end are different enough that you can really specialize in one or the other. They take very different mindsets. I know how to make css obey, I don't know how to make sql performant. Its possible to have both, but not as well.

For every front-end dev, you need 3 back-end guys and a designer.

Programmers are not bad at our jobs, its just not a mature disclipline yet.

If you're not a programming superstar you can probably make more money writing nothing but Terraform code for hapless enterprises.

Good programmers need to be creative, flexible (soft skills with others), critical thinkers, and problem solvers. Lacking those kinds of features makes for a rigid and terrible programmer that is near impossible to work with or code behind. Leave the ego at the door.

Python, and dynamically typed languages in general, are known as being great for beginners. However, I feel that while they’re fun for beginners, they should only be used if you really know what you’re doing, as the code can get messy real fast without some guard rails in place (static typing being a big one).

The amount of unqualified people is staggering beginning with those who have no university education.

Mandatory pull requests + approvals within a team are a waste of everyone's time.

Modern PHP is great and people judging it by PHP 5 (version that's almost 20 years old) are idiots.

I find that S-expressions are the best syntax for programming languages. And in general infix operators are inferior to either prefix or postfix notation.