Discrediting influential and important people for the (sometimes very) bad parts of their person is such as 2010's thing to do, in my opinion. Do we really care about the financial and moral backgrounds of cultural and scientific figures like Darwin, Curie, Beethoven, Einstein, Edison and Chaplin so much that we would be willing to forget their contributions if they turned out to also have been immoral people? There is a moral line to be drawn somewhere, and in my opinion someone like Kevin Spacey is right around that line, Jimmy Savile has definitely crossed it, while Ada Lovelace has not. Also, I believe the critique of Ada Lovelace is heavily influenced by the fact that she was a woman. Gambling, infidelity and financial scheming itself does not seem that controversial to me even in a historical context, and I would frankly be surprised if the same wasn't true of a large portion of our male historical "heroes".

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Thanks for the comment. Writing code to manage flows of data like that (basically server development) is definitely more low level than most coders go nowadays.

Great comment! It's impressive to see such progress in such short amount of time, even though I suppose your higher level programming background helps.

When I'm not working on code to support my employers' Kubernetes centered environment, specifically automation code to ensure a number of clusters all serve the same base set of applications for customer onprem-installs, I enjoy exploring and coding for retro architectures, such as the Incompatible Time Sharing system for the PDP-10, the Nintendo Game Boy, Amiga 500, etc. I once built an emulator for a non-existing 8-bit computer of my own design, which I then programmed (with my own assembler) classic games like Sokoban for. I often play with electronics and microcontrollers (plain AVR, not Arduino because I'm of hipster reasons) where I've implemented a light weight TCP like protocol for RC car radio communication. My next project is probably going to be a Z80 based computer (built using original ICs, replacing EEPROM and PIO with a modern AVR microcontroller) that I wish to bootstrap into at least a Forth system somehow. For the complete retro feel, it will feature an Altair 8800-like front panel with switches and step programming. I previously built a network automation engine and a vendor/device agnostic network device API, basically something like NAPALM, before I knew that project existed.

I agree and sympathize with this, and it doesn't just apply to web development. My experience so far has taught me that it's probably best to get a hello world-level understanding of some options, pick what resonates with you the most and stick with it, until your employer tells you otherwise or you get bored enough to start learning something new. It's often better to expand your skill set than moving on to a new employer to work with what you have already mastered. Most likely you'd be better of as an all around web developer in fifteen years than, for example, as a Vue specialist. You'd be maintaining legacy apps until retirement after your primary tech goes obsolete... There are thousands of people still maintaining Perl/CGI apps today, and I doubt they still feel inspired.

I would probably not suggest a high profile escort as a dev hero, no. A professional escort might very well be a hobbyist dev hero, but you'd have to show me some git repo proof.