broke: a programming culture of everyone teaching themselves how to do everything and competing in a race to the bottom, creating fragmented and broken development processes

woke: a trade union that trains new people, sets industry wide labor and compensation standards, and builds standardized shared development tools and processes

@dankwraith god I fucking wish I could be anything other than self taught

being self taught made me implement rot 13 by writing a switch state for every single letter of the alphabet, both capital and lowercase

@woob jesus fucking christ
@dankwraith being self taught held me back from programming because some stupid fucking tutorial online told me that writing in notepad.exe would be a good learning experience