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A look back at twenty years of writing code

A look back at twenty years of writing code.
In one way or another, I have been writing code for the last two decades. If I am being honest with you, dear reader, I can’t pinpoint the exact time I wrote my first software, but it is close enough to twenty years to take some poetic license with this.

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Same here, looking forward to coding until my 60’s. Just started coding after college.

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