Teens and college graduates are again and again told that they can’t be considered a ‘real developer’ unless they use technology X where X is the “cool” or “hip” tools to use this month. I’ve seen this in our technical and software development communities on Twitter, Reddit, in-person, and even at conferences. When someone takes it upon themselves to decide who does or does not have access or rights to a community or identity. Urban Dictionary defines Gatekeeping as the following: NET developer tools and work on productive software on my Twitch stream
Purchase a laptop at my local discount retail shop, a Walmart in my case.I set the following parameters for myself, to ensure that I was getting a computer that just about anyone could acquire: What about those folks that don’t have access to these resources? Let’s knock down those doors and show that ANYONE ANYWHERE can be a. I was using a very expensive machine with lots of memory and drive space in a virtual machine. After writing my previous post in this Minimal March series, it was pointed out to me that my approach is still a little bit of ‘ gatekeeping‘.
