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by yrgoldteeth 5578 days ago
Going to one of the largest developer conferences of my particular niche in the development world was a particularly eyeopening experience. While there were definitely talks that were above my skill level, they were also well above the skill level of many of the other attendees. Being able to compare my code with some of the rockstar/ninja/insert-superlative-here showed me that I was working on things at the same levels as them, and in some cases found that my code might even be better. Check out your peers outside of your immediate surroundings and read their code.

In the end, do you ship software? Is it solving the problems it was designed to solve? Are the people you're leading happy, healthy and also productively shipping software? Then you're not an impostor.