check out my reply above - the owing my career to gatsby is very much about my specific story - a story that is probably very different from most hackernews contributors but maybe some aspects of it are more common for the lurkers here, of which I am one.

I would honestly be interested to know how many self taught people making things work building basic sites for unglamorous corners of the internet cruise this site.

To be honest I don't really feel welcome here because I'm not sophisticated (prob the best word for it) enough. But that's ok.