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a beautiful post. it's really nice when we get posts like this here, just personally i find it very meaningful.

> But sometimes the employees there would give me the employee discount, I guess they realized I needed it.

that is such a heart-warming thing.

i would maybe argue the following point in the article:

> People whose work was not aimed at me in the slightest.

idk. i think that part of the point of being open is being open to possibilities. obviously no one can see the far-reaching consequences of their work when they set out to do it. but sometimes, people have hopes, i think, that their openness will create possibilities just like this article is describing.

> resources like w3schools,

i remember a long time back - maybe 15 years ago - i would occasionally read w3schools, and i had a coworker who would kind of turn up their nose at that site, they were kind of a snob about it. i knew enough then to realize it wasn't the best site for everything but out of insecurity after that person said that, i stopped reading it too. but it helped me, too. and i'm glad it helped you. i am starting to re-revise my opinion of that site.




w3schools was how I first started learning programming and I still find it useful sometimes.

I too saw the snobs.




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