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This is amazing and a scenario I had never really considered before. I know it has been said that the best programmers carry around small programs in their head

This is amazing and a scenario I had never really considered before. I know it has been said that the best programmers carry around small programs in their heads and map things out mentally — this is kind of the same idea taken to the extreme. I thought the portion on frontend development was really interesting. Something I had never considered, but to think of it from the angle in which it is presented just kind of blew my mind. This piece made my morning. edit: I guess this post also just shows that if you want to learn to program and be an engineer, there are certainly ways to make that happen, regardless of specific elements of your situation (to a point, obviously). Really, really neat.

pacaro 9y ago
I worked with an engineer who was partially sighted and could only see a tiny fraction of the screen at a time, he had essentially memorized most of the code base. What struck me was that when I started working, while not the same, that was how you got anything done, API docs were on paper, we had stacks of books on our desks, code navigation tools were laughable, no intellisence, and screen were small (14" 640x480). When I was regularly writing win16/32 code I would rarely need to look anything up, the cost of doing so naturally trains you to remember. I don't miss it tbh