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Tales From Doing It The Old-School Hard Way

Posted by Charlie Recksieck on 2025-05-01
A million years ago when I used to work at Autodesk, I worked with a terrific coder named Andy who made up a little "Powered by Notepad" graphic to show off that he could write great code "by hand" instead of relying on IDEs.

It was funny, and a manly flex. Keep in mind this was just after the turn of the millennium. So, any of us who were programming at the time we ... See full post


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