[fiddlerwoaroof]

I’ve been programming and reading programming-adjacent books since I was about six. It definitely has shaped my views about hyped technologies since I remember the same sort of rhetoric used to promote OOP and XML and Java as is being used today to promote Crypto, AI and Rust.

I don’t know if it’s made me a better programmer, but it’s made me realize the importance of focusing on fundamentals and learning the ephemeral stuff just in time.