https://medium.com/@ssg/how-is-computer-programming-different-today-than-20-years-ago-9d0154d1b6ce funny but true post. One item is that creating a new programming language is a common hobby

Among the people I talk to, creating a new programming language as a hobby project was definitely a thing 20 years ago. I created a bunch myself. Building a community around your hobby language was way too much work, so most remained private. What's changed is that 20 years ago we didn't have github, so the hobby now has greater visibility.

Some real gems there, "3 billion devices run Java. That number hasn’t changed in the last 10 years though." ... "A tutorial isn’t really helpful if it’s not a video recording that takes orders of magnitude longer to understand than its text." ... "We don’t use IRC for communication anymore. We prefer a bloated version called Slack because we just didn’t want to type in a server address."

the slack thing hit me hard lol