[LRUG] Trying to locate a blog post referenced on LRUG chat

Roland Swingler roland.swingler at gmail.com
Tue Apr 4 02:59:32 PDT 2017


http://blog.aurynn.com/contempt-culture

This one?

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Patrick Gleeson <
patrick.c.gleeson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi LRUG,
>
> My Google-fu (and Gmail inbox search-fu) has failed me. At some point in
> the last year I'm pretty sure someone on LRUG linked to a fascinating blog
> post that was a rant about when coders start hating on other people's
> technology stacks. It pointed out that for people who don't come into
> coding through computer science degrees, a fairly common route is setting
> up something simple like a blog, then hacking around with Wordpress plugins
> to customise it, then learning a bit more about coding with PHP and taking
> it from there. It then argued that people who take that route tend to be
> more diverse than the typical CS demographic, and if people in the industry
> industry keep on being school-playground-level nasty about languages like
> PHP just because they're not the language they're most used to, we'll
> stifle diversity by discouraging people taking route in to the industry.
>
> Does that ring any bells? I really want to cite the original article for
> something I'm working on. Ten internet points for anyone who can point me
> towards it.
>
> Best,
>
> Patrick
>
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