I consider myself a self-taught professional developer, since it's become the job that pays my bills, but I've never had any formal education on the subject. I

I consider myself a self-taught professional developer, since it's become the job that pays my bills, but I've never had any formal education on the subject. I regularly find out things like this, because I haven't been educated on the subject and because I don't have infinite spare time to study programming patterns. I know they exist and when I feel the need to, I look them up, but otherwise, yeah; "npm -i <all the things>" all the time. I don't feel bad about this at all, since my colleagues describe me as a competent developer and my employer can't find enough people for all the work we have to do. If we only wanted to hire developers who understand C, we'd have a really big issue.