I'm not quite sure how I'm meant to feel about this. Some of the things on this list are truly trivial: I don't care if you use a mouse. I don't like to use

I'm not quite sure how I'm meant to feel about this. Some of the things on this list are truly trivial: I don't care if you use a mouse. I don't like to use one, but it's not because I'm a programmer. Other things on the list are kind of unfortunate. "I don't know how to use awk". I mean, that's totally fine. Lots of people don't. I kind of feel like this is a celebration of ignorance. You don't have to know awk to be a programmer, but awk is useful (even if you aren't a programmer)! I'm not sure if the author is working through their own imposter syndrome and trying to feel better about themself, or if they are admonishing others who value things that they don't value. I mean it's both OK that you don't know CSS as a front end developer and OK if you think that CSS is important to know as a front end developer (it really is, by the way ;-) ). You don't go from knowing nothing to knowing everything in a day. Where you are is where you are and there is nothing to apologise for. However it's important not to plant yourself there and say "I'm alright Jack. I don't have to go any further. All this other stuff is not important", because some of it is (or can be, if you want it to be). Edit: grammar and clarity