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

idea: a network of developer co-ops that pledge to share tools and knowledge among each other and excludes privately owned enterprise from accessing them

@dankwraith

a professional org that's actually a professional org

@dankwraith the software soviet

this is exactly the original idea of the soviet union afaik, capitalism deployed all it's force to end that idea

@dankwraith this is what the British Computer Society is supposed to be but unfortunately they're so contemptible that almost nobody joins.

@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