A thought I keep coming back to:

If programming is a large part of your life (professionally or not), then it's remarkably difficult to completely waste your time while programming.

It often _feels_ like it, whenever you didn't solve the immediate problem. But skill is your most important resource, and every line you write trains and builds skill.

Even code you shouldn't have written, or that reviewers hate, or that doesn't work.

Sometimes it's _only_ practice – but that's still not nothing!

You can be told you are non-binary,
discover yourself to be non-binary,
be assumed to be non-binary,
want to be non-binary,
resent being non-binary,
decide to be non-binary,
grow into a non-binary person.

And none of these are mutually exclusive.

one thing i love about being in a long tech career is seeing how far things have come over the years.

when i started it was all “ugh clippy is so obnoxious” and decades of progress have gotten us all the way to “ugh this ai assistant is so obnoxious.”

Hallelujah melody + Baby Got Back lyrics

 @ there_i_ruined_it

#BabyGotBack #Hallelujah