The pedants on Hacker News understood what the OP meant, yet nitpick on his use of "programmer". I agree that there is too much window dressing on the web, an

The pedants on Hacker News understood what the OP meant, yet nitpick on his use of "programmer". I agree that there is too much window dressing on the web, an aesthetic defined by gratuitous graphic elements and distractions. The only purpose it serves is to project an image, it is marketing. It used to be that pretty designs are seen as more trustworthy, but there has been a backlash. The superficial optimism of modern web design is becoming less and less effective, and it's taking more effort to pull it off.