A body of work of an atypical programmer
If there’s one thing that has become clear to me after decades of experience in programming (and countless discussions in different communities), is that I don’t think like most people. I believe programmers don’t think like most people, but I’m not talking about just that, even among programmers I clearly think differently. And before people start throwing claims of arrogance, or narcissism; “different” doesn’t necessarily mean superior: just different.
The examples I’m going to provide are going to show cases in which I turned out to be right, but obviously there is a selection bias; this doesn’t mean that my way of thinking is always superior, or even in the majority of cases. Simply that sometimes it is.
Some people are inevitably going to focus on my persona, rather than the code, or the arguments, because that’s what humans do: as social animals it’s in our nature. I would ask you dear reader to try to avoid that, but inevitably I foresee some of you uttering the famous The Big Lebowski line: “you’re not wrong, you are just an asshole”.
