It strikes me that I'm seemingly one of the few people at my workplace who can handle abstracted functionality comfortable and make use of third party code/libraries without fear.
tl;dr, I wrote a customer service app for my company in about a week flat.
my proudest moments are when i'm collaborating with such flow that no one knows exactly where each idea came from, and at the end we have a powerful, awesome product that none of us could have built alone, that is seemingly greater than the sum of its contributors. i can understand it, i can see some of my contributions, and yet it is greater than me. add some social good and purpose and then i'd feel me some good pride.
Anyway, as is the saying, "whatever gets you off". If I've managed to be particularly clever or efficient or solved a problem I haven't previously, I feel good about that. In 10 years doing this I've never collaborated on a project start to finish with other programmers but I imagine I'd feel good about that, too. I guess I just lack the ability to comprehend self-pity over a personal accomplishment.
I don't know, I recall an (unnecessarily) hard-coded HTML form in a Django project with extremely poor input validation that somebody I knew wrote. It was a single field, single button form too, I might add.
I refactored it with extreme prejudice.
There are "pitiful" tiers of code, relative to those who find it pitiful, but there's no such thing as pitiful pride. Essentially din0's argument is "Hey, you shouldn't feel proud about that because I have done things I consider superior! Pity yourself!" I was just trying to point out the absurd nature of that argument.