Ah yes, the honest days of development, when you just got your hands dirty and didn’t have to worry about expensive formal education and stupid interview tactics.
It was fun and I learned a lot. I mostly did small time jobs for local companies and used the money for my tuition. Most sites were just static HTML, and I could program flash, so there wasn’t much risk to it.
I am glad we have git instead of various backup folders on an ftp server, continuous integration, unit tests, and frameworks/accessible info to prevent the more basic errors.
There is reasons it ended, and some of them good. Sorry, got caught up in nostalgia a bit there.
You can still write open source stuff without needing anything besides technical knowledge, if you are in a situation where you have extra time and energy after feeding yourself.
Ah yes, the honest days of development, when you just got your hands dirty and didn’t have to worry about expensive formal education and stupid interview tactics.
It was fun and I learned a lot. I mostly did small time jobs for local companies and used the money for my tuition. Most sites were just static HTML, and I could program flash, so there wasn’t much risk to it.
I am glad we have git instead of various backup folders on an ftp server, continuous integration, unit tests, and frameworks/accessible info to prevent the more basic errors.
There is reasons it ended, and some of them good. Sorry, got caught up in nostalgia a bit there.
You can still write open source stuff without needing anything besides technical knowledge, if you are in a situation where you have extra time and energy after feeding yourself.