I grow so weary of this community's combativeness. Allow me to translate such a headline. "I am [age] and I made [thing]" actually means "I am new at this.

I grow so weary of this community's combativeness. Allow me to translate such a headline. "I am [age] and I made [thing]" actually means "I am new at this. I know you guys aren't. I want you to check it out and give me encouragement and guidance." Do they want attention? Of course! They believe, correctly, that the attention of more experienced people will lead to their growth. We should absolutely give it to them. You really think our typical bickering is a better use of time than mentoring the next generation? Getting young people into science and technology is the single greatest professional duty any technologist has. We need help. We have more problems to solve than we can count. We have an entire planet of dumb objects waiting to be woken up. We need software written and interfaces designed for classes of products we can't even imagine yet. So we need kids to grow up and choose the very, very hard work of learning to bend technology to their will. We need them to believe they can make careers out of it. And we certainly need them to believe that when they get there, they won't be surrounded by assholes. When a kid shows up sharing their work, you circle around them and hoist them on your damn shoulders. They're choosing the career that will make your life better one day. They're choosing the career that will broaden your hiring pool one day. They're, blessedly, choosing tech over drugs, drink, violence and investment banking. Celebrate them, for fuck's sake.