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> but only see articles like this as resume fodder.

Not super important, but i think it's worth calling out. Some of us program because it's fun. We dig into problems like this because it scratches an itch. We share in the hopes of interacting with like-minded individuals. Not everything is about resumes.

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Indeed. Some of us do it because we stubbornly want to see just how fast we can make a “slow” language go.

Personally I tend to discount the possibility of such motivations for a text once that text is interrupted in the middle to sell me something (which a Substack form counts as).

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