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I’m only 32 but I started with DOS and later desktop programming, moved on to LAMP in the 00’s, then SPA in the 10’s, and now going heavily to serverless+JAM.

by Swizec 7y ago

I’m only 32 but I started with DOS and later desktop programming, moved on to LAMP in the 00’s, then SPA in the 10’s, and now going heavily to serverless+JAM. Hell I even had a tiny app make it into the official KDE distribution in high school. And I built my own templating language transpiler for a custom PHP framework ... What does that make me? Whitebeard lol?

zackmorris 7y ago
Well I think the whole pirate/ninja thing is a great metaphor for hackers, so technically you are a blackbeard. My friend and old business partner is 3 years older than me but still highly productive making games in Unity, so I think of him as a wizard or maybe a whitebeard. I'm just, haggard, so feel like a graybeard even though I can't grow one.
keithnz 7y ago
well, 40 is a hard cut off into gr(a|e)ybeard society. So, at the moment you are a "wannabe" ;) I think anyone who is pushing 2 decades ish or more of writing quite diverse software is likely a gr(e|a)ybeard. I started programming when I was 8, I'm now 48 and literally have a mostly a gr(a|e)y beard :)