I still lurk from time to time.

I haven't touched perl in about a decade at least but this place still has some of the best programmers I've ever encountered. The community by and large is unmatched and I'm really nostalgic for the era when PM was in its prime.

I've been registered for 22 years apparently. I remember being too nervous to ask anything for probably a year or two, and it took even longer for anything to stick. It took a really long time for me to get a handle on writing code, it just didn't mesh with how my brain worked at the time. But people were patient and nurtured my curiosity. I eventually grew into a software development career in no small part thanks to PM.

I certainly feel like I wasn't a programmer for a long time. Frankly there's still a lot of fundamental programming stuff I just stare at blankly and I'm terrible at programming puzzles. But these days I'm able to put together clean, extendable code that runs at scale so that has to count for something.

Nothing beats early 2000s era web, and I hope I can find a way to start participating around these parts again.

Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're god damn right I'm living in the fucking past

In reply to Re: Who's still around? by stonecolddevin
in thread Who's still around? by stevieb

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