Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.

It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.