How To Spot a Short-Sighted Developer

A list of clues to identifying them

Hackerman — A popular Internet Meme (I really don’t know where it came from)

Hi there, fellow coders! We’re all on a quest to level up our programming skills, right?

So, how do we become coding wizards? Well, here’s what people generally do:

1. Scouring through other people’s code — because we all know there’s wisdom in those curly braces.
2. Devouring programming articles — the ones that reveal secrets, shortcuts, and maybe even a joke or two.
3. Sifting through documentation — yes, those sprawling tech manuals that often make us feel lost in a maze. But they hold the keys!

But here’s the fun part: to reach greatness, you’ve got to be a detective and search for those telltale signs of being, dare I say it, an “average” developer. 🕵️‍♂️

My mission is to guide you in discovering these four telltale signals of a short-sighted programmer, so you can steer yourself down the right coding lane.

They don’t “design” prototypes, they “build” it!

Let me tell you a little story about my journey from a code-centric prototype skeptic to a design enthusiast. I used to be all about code-based prototypes, and I couldn’t fathom why anyone would bother with non-code-based ones. I’d ask…