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

[Roland Swingler]

(really great article I think).

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Roland Swingler <roland.swingler at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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