Being the room

I’ve written before about my computing origin story , and it’s still true. These boxes of sand, they can change the world, but only with the right programming. On its own, a computer isn’t even a fancy calculator. With software, it can be whatever it needs to be. Who wouldn’t want to write software that could change someone’s life for the better? It’s still the dream. I moved into management when I remembered that programming was a means to an end. I had become enamoured with programming as its own craft, but I knew I was never going to be that one programmer that you’d give an impossible prob

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