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> I spend so much time learning new things about programming that the amount of code I’m actually generating has deteriorated down to just what I’m doing for wo
by whinvik 4y ago
> I spend so much time learning new things about programming that the amount of code I’m actually generating has deteriorated down to just what I’m doing for work.
This sounds so much like me. I also fell into software in a roundabout way like the author. But while trying to figure out how to do my work I get to hear so many acronyms that I have to follow that I often get lost. There is a fine line between learning and wasting time which I haven't figure out yet.
- scrapcode 4y agoThis is kind of how I've grown to feel about modern software development. I used to resent that my career took me down a path that albeit technical, was not what I enjoyed to do: programming. However, while still trying to somewhat keep up with things on my personal projects and tools, I'm constantly taking new Udemy courses etc for a new stack, or to get updated on how a framework now works from the last time I used it. It was a powerful time when I could pull up Notepad++ and start hacking away a CRUD app in PHP and be confident it would run with minimal rework and minimal reference outside of typing php.net/<function_name>