I agree and disagree: Agree that it is frustrating to see people who don't have to same calling and passion, who see programming and software as just a 9-5, in

I agree and disagree: Agree that it is frustrating to see people who don't have to same calling and passion, who see programming and software as just a 9-5, in some ways, but I disagree that is necessarily evil or toxic. Many people come to computing from other fields, just wanting to get stuff done, scripting, etc. They don't necessarily share the passion some of us posess, but that's true in any job. The problem is that people in power decided to frown upon those people, instead of teaching them, forcing them to relive 50 years of programming history to get the knowledge they need: it wasn't until the left-pad incident that I understood the cost of dependancies, and the importance of vetting them, and avoiding them of possible. Nobody made it clear, because they were too busy glaring down at newbs, and bikeshedding about js as a language (newsflash: it's here, we're stuck with it, it's not as bad as you think, you can write good code in it, so just thank Jesus f@$%# Christ that you're stuck with it, and not something like QuakeC. God). Frankly, nerd and hacker culture is growing the same as always, it's just that programming isn't exclusive to us anymore. We haven't gotten smaller, the playground's gotten bigger. So for god's sake show some of the smaller kids how the zipline works before they fall off and break their arm.