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Sam Rose
@samwho.dev

I’m still routinely intimated by some people in tech. Everything I publish gets negative comments to some degree. People telling me I’m dumbing stuff down too much, or I’m wrong about stuff and shouldn’t be writing about it. Putting yourself out there eventually guarantees this will happen to you.

Anuj Ahooja@quillmatiq.com

Since we're among close friends, a confession: when I was in college, I experienced some hateful engineers in the Linux community, and it kept me away from open source in my prime programming years. Sometimes the difference between an annoyance and a valued contributor is kindness and mentorship.

Axel Möllerberg
@axeberg.dev

This happens to me almost daily. I am a walking definition of the ”dog in lab coat”-meme most of the time. ”Dumbing things down” is an art. Teaching is a passion _and_ an art. Making something complex simple, doesn’t mean it’s easy — in fact it’s quite the opposite.

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Axel Möllerberg
@axeberg.dev

The fact that you choose to do it, and very well too I might add, speaks volumes about you as a person, at least in my book! I just happen to know a lot of people agree.