On: Web Programming Is Hard

[alex_c]

Personally, I find it refreshing to read a blog post that isn't - either directly or indirectly - about how amazing the author is.

Programming blogging has a strong culture of focusing on the newest, shiniest, and cleverest; the only negative blog posts tend to be "why X is wrong". No one blogs about their difficulties, weaknesses, doubts, or the huge amount of effort it takes to get really good at something. I think that's unfortunate, because it paints an inaccurate image of programming.

[alnayyir → alex_c]

My eyes crossed a bit at the linked-list thing, but I agree whole-heartedly with the sentiment expressed here.

Despite being engineers/programmers, we have the same proclivities for superficiality and marketing as any other field.