On the contrary, learning the fundamentals of CS has made me a much better dev, more so than any fact or tidbit. Its a testament to the awesomeness of the web

On the contrary, learning the fundamentals of CS has made me a much better dev, more so than any fact or tidbit. Its a testament to the awesomeness of the web however that so so many people even without any formal training can go about creating value. You _can_ be a webdev tradesman, fixing things till it works, kinda, or you can delve into the fundamentals and be much more productive. But you don’t have to and I think thats awesome. For example I still remember that conference that introduced Ruby on Rails to the world so many years ago. Most webdevs did not know there was an underlying theory and standard (REST) that can be used to make web apis bearable! After rails, we kinda figured huh, so this RFC for the web was sitting there all those years gathering dust and only weirdos and graybeards talked about it. But it was actually very very useful.