I started when I was 34, for the same motivations that you describe. It become my profession and my hobby. I'm now 47 and I'm still enjoying the ride a lot.

Right there is my motivation.

The difference between starting in 2012 and 2025 is absolutely massive.

We need good teachers in these areas. I think this is an insane idea on many levels.

The title says it all

Watching a cat failing to open a jar, I noticed that my brain expects cats to succeed at all they do.

Can be true, but it applies to Disneyland as well.

But if you're a conservative cynic about Disneyland, people will just label you as some old sad geezer with outdated opinions yelling at kids playing in the garden. You have to hate on something new and trendy to keep up your consumer focus group engagement metrics these days.

Energy shaming isn’t a conservative schtik. The OP is right, why are we picking and choosing? Shame them all. Disney, Six Flags, Universal Studios, Sea World, Bush Gardens

Then where are all the articles bashing them? Only targeting the trendy bait makes them seem insincere, just like the other commenter said.

I would presume, because it is the largest, and most famous of them all… Not for any nefarious reason

It is by far neither the the most famous nor the largest once you account for the whole population and not some bubble.

Which makes you seem insincere.

Fear not. It's zero emissions ;)

What helped me the most from the basics to being a Django professional has been Two Scoops of Django. The best about this book is that is authoritatively opinionated about which are the best practices in the Django world. This really helps you not to get lost. See: https://www.twoscoopspress.com/products/two-scoops-of-django...

I completely agree. It was also very well balanced between theory and practice.

> horrifying

is definitively too much. And also the interpretation is too strict. Why being outraged for something like this?

Walking helps me in solving programming issues.

When I find myself stuck and my mind starts to loop around, I need to force myself to take a purposeless walk, around my office's block or little more. During the walk I stop thinking about the problem for a while and then resume from a new angle. It normally works very well.

It wouldn't have been smart either. What one should charge is what one can charge. And it's unrelated to what the cost of living is in a given country.