Thank you for asking, since I dished it out I will try and explain what gave me that feeling, although @braza has made some excellent points already.
First off, thank you for the article, it was certainly interesting for me, being a newcomer in the industry myself.
What I did not like about it began after the first two lines with you quoting your own twitter post, which gave me real "i only listen to real music" vibes in the first sentence alone, but the "you're all adorable" took it from a bit edgy to condescending. Given, that might have been an attempt at a joke which I simply did not get.
Then the part about the "common discourse" which I really failed to understand, because in my experience there are lots of different specializations when talking to fellow developers and this frontent/backend divide you perceived I did not.
And finally all that talk about contributing to meaningful Open Source projects, thereby implying that there is a league of worthy projects and other projects that are wasting ones time. Then, by chance your company maintaining some of those good open source projects and the anecdote of V contributing to one of your projects a lot, to get hired eventually.
To me this is just saying: "Work for free for software companies, and if you only work hard enough, maybe someone will notice". And while that may even be the truth, I just don't find it good advice to give to people trying to become developers, frontend, backend or whatever.
First off, thank you for the article, it was certainly interesting for me, being a newcomer in the industry myself.
What I did not like about it began after the first two lines with you quoting your own twitter post, which gave me real "i only listen to real music" vibes in the first sentence alone, but the "you're all adorable" took it from a bit edgy to condescending. Given, that might have been an attempt at a joke which I simply did not get.
Then the part about the "common discourse" which I really failed to understand, because in my experience there are lots of different specializations when talking to fellow developers and this frontent/backend divide you perceived I did not.
And finally all that talk about contributing to meaningful Open Source projects, thereby implying that there is a league of worthy projects and other projects that are wasting ones time. Then, by chance your company maintaining some of those good open source projects and the anecdote of V contributing to one of your projects a lot, to get hired eventually.
To me this is just saying: "Work for free for software companies, and if you only work hard enough, maybe someone will notice". And while that may even be the truth, I just don't find it good advice to give to people trying to become developers, frontend, backend or whatever.