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> I’ve spent the last three years learning to think like a wizard, to conjure joy from pain[1] and cast protection spells over the important things[2]. I finally feel like I’ve grown into a bonafide wizard myself.

Sounds like they're being quite earnest about the wizard stuff. Clicking through the links yields even more wizard talk.

[1] https://spin.atomicobject.com/2018/06/01/conjure-joy-from-pa...

[2] https://spin.atomicobject.com/2018/11/07/wizard-consultant-s...

If you follow the link at the top of the second post, you can find this, which defines what they think a 'wizard' is.

https://drawings.jvns.ca/wizard-programmer/

Hah, I remember seeing this when it first came out. Thanks for the reminder. It's not the only reference to Julia Evans on the site either.

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