A few weeks ago, someone had a thread up asking what people did to help them get past impostor syndrome, and I had a stab at writing up an answer that revolved around "realise that if you read hacker news, you're probably inside a quality bubble. Look at how bad some people who are employed in software are at their jobs and get some perspective".

I ended up deleting the comment without posting it because I didn't have any good examples that I felt I could talk about in detail.

This is a great one though. To everyone on hacker news, if you ever feel inadequate about not writing as many unit tests as you know you should (or whatever is bugging you), remember that time Staofbur found a whole company of people so clueless they used a wooden spoon instead of version control.

Yeah you should probably write more unit tests, but overall, the fact that you even know enough to feel worried about that makes you the cream of the software industry. There's a whole pail of rather thin milk below you.