caring about aesthetics has been one of the biggest motivators for my growth as an engineer. as a teen i learned HTML to built websites from scratch bc sitebuilders didn't look the way i wanted them to
I was an art kid all my life who has become more interested in site design, CSS and such. But I’m always intimidated because most devs talk about loving it as kids and I just wanted to paint.
This oh so very much. I find my art and design background is super helpful in all aspects of programming and software engineering. It's ok to learn things in a different order!