Programming is the easy part, and a useless skill on its own.

If you can only program in one language, you can't program.

C++ is the single best language to learn programming.

Stupid mistakes you make are not bugs, at least not for you.

The amount of unqualified people is staggering beginning with those who have no university education.

Good programmers need to be creative, flexible (soft skills with others), critical thinkers, and problem solvers. Lacking those kinds of features makes for a rigid and terrible programmer that is near impossible to work with or code behind. Leave the ego at the door.

Python, and dynamically typed languages in general, are known as being great for beginners. However, I feel that while they’re fun for beginners, they should only be used if you really know what you’re doing, as the code can get messy real fast without some guard rails in place (static typing being a big one).

Mandatory pull requests + approvals within a team are a waste of everyone's time.

I find that S-expressions are the best syntax for programming languages. And in general infix operators are inferior to either prefix or postfix notation.

If you're not a programming superstar you can probably make more money writing nothing but Terraform code for hapless enterprises.

If your function is longer than 10 statements, parts can almost always be extracted into smaller parts. If named correctly, this improves readability significantly