Adrian, that’s a great piece. I’m 44 and have been coding non-stop since age 9 (on a ZX81), now PHP and Node. It’s only in these later years I’ve begun to produce code I’m really proud of, mainly because of experience and focusing on quality over quantity. (Mind you, I can still produce spaghetti with the best of them.) A key point, as you say, has been the decision to stop paying attention to the latest hype and fretting about becoming a dinosaur.