Sometimes I get asked by newcomers how one can become a developer like me - specifically, with a job and career like mine. I find this sort of question impossible to answer. My personal situation is the result of the time I started, local and international economic forces, politics, and happenstance. I can't tell you how to recreate it from scratch in 2024! It does create a little thought exercise in my head though: if you were to remove all external variables, what traits in an individual de...
