A Salute to Solo Programmers
I'm the only developer in my ad agency of about 80 people.  It's super cool to write all my own code, make all my own stack choices.  To know that I wrote everything here is a really cool feeling.<p>At the same time, I really miss talking shop with other devs.  And given my extremely young age (only a few years out of school) sometimes it can be hard to be sure I'm making the most efficient choices.  There's a lot of times I ask myself...why is this stupid and what am I going to break?<p>It definitely has its ups and downs.  I think the most valuable lesson has been self reliance.  No one is fixing this, it's on me.  No one is going to refactor this, except for me.<p>edit: spelling :(