If I'm just a "hacker wannabe" then how did I write my own complete blogging system from scratch:
Keep hating, you wear your jealousy on your sleeve...
Keep hating, you wear your jealousy on your sleeve...
Also, it appears you followed a simple node tutorial and you are calling it a "platform." I'm not sure jealousy is the correct word here. If writing blog posts and following tutorials is your idea of being a developer, I'm not surprised you had a hard time in the Bay Area.
Put in the coding time, stop overselling yourself, and maybe then you will be attractive to potential employers. Blaming your failure on everyone else isn't getting you anywhere.
A blogging platform is a similar sort of project. Any novice programmer can build one given enough time and motivation. Building a polished one is an accomplishment, but it's by no means a feat of programming creativity or a demonstration of vast skill.
When I hire junior developers I'm looking for people who know at least a few different programming languages and are skilled with a number of different tools. I'm not looking for a tumblr blog or deep knowledge of git. Git can be reasonably taught in a week or two; a programming language can't.
Most startups use a few different programming languages. Mine used 3 before we were acquired. Since we were acquired we now use 6 languages on 4 OSes (Win,Lin,QNX,iOS) to provide our sensor-based solution to our clients. A real hacker is the kind of programmer who can quickly adapt to such an environment and get up to speed quickly. That's not what defines a hacker* , but that's what makes them so valuable.
* I define a hacker as someone skilled at creatively misusing available technology to solve hard problems under extreme constraints