I've been following Chris' work for years, and I think he articulates this 'trying too hard' nonsense you see everywhere on Github. Like we can make a 3D cube in HTML and make it spin, but people can't buy a ticket to fly to another country without what feels like a case study in dark patterns, usability issues, and horrific a11y issues.
All code is energy, and if it's squandered in the wrong places, you get an imbalance. The net effect of engineers getting carried away in a lab is ― you get kids learning how to make their first website thinking that code is some dark art, and some black magic. It's not.
<b>Look ma, no GruntJS</b>
It's rather simple stuff. That said, any time I read the words "Impostor Syndrome", I think of agony aunt sections in newspapers, and open teen diaries, not learning how to style a bullet point with CSS, or improving my craft.
All code is energy, and if it's squandered in the wrong places, you get an imbalance. The net effect of engineers getting carried away in a lab is ― you get kids learning how to make their first website thinking that code is some dark art, and some black magic. It's not.
It's rather simple stuff. That said, any time I read the words "Impostor Syndrome", I think of agony aunt sections in newspapers, and open teen diaries, not learning how to style a bullet point with CSS, or improving my craft.