Programming

Python, and dynamically typed languages in general, are known as being great for beginners. However, I feel that while they’re fun for beginners, they should only be used if you really know what you’re doing, as the code can get messy real fast without some guard rails in place (static typing being a big one).

Good programmers need to be creative, flexible (soft skills with others), critical thinkers, and problem solvers. Lacking those kinds of features makes for a rigid and terrible programmer that is near impossible to work with or code behind. Leave the ego at the door.

If you're not a programming superstar you can probably make more money writing nothing but Terraform code for hapless enterprises.

The amount of unqualified people is staggering beginning with those who have no university education.

Programming is actually hard af to do for any extended period of time (more than half an hour)

It requires such a specific mind that's drawn to all the detail oriented specific robotic parts of coding but almost all coders say coding is easy because the people whose mind don't fit coding already quit long ago

Yes I find coding hard and no I'm not coping

Actually programming being difficult might not be correct but more like programming is largely unbearable

Modern PHP is great and people judging it by PHP 5 (version that's almost 20 years old) are idiots.

If your function is longer than 10 statements, parts can almost always be extracted into smaller parts. If named correctly, this improves readability significantly

Don't enforce using the same tech stack on each new project. When customer, domain, environment, requirements etc differ, so might the tool suite, languages, frameworks etc