Or: When all you have is a CSS hammer, the world looks like a CSS nail.
Whenever I hear a perfectly nice comment like, "Yeah, representing the tech field!" in response to my pure-CSS art, I get a sharp feeling of panic.
Like many people who work on UIs for a living, I have difficulty applying the "tech" term to myself without feeling like a fraud. Impostor syndrome is a hard thing to shake. A front-end specialist? Oh, you mean the stuff that isn’t really code? That amps up the feeling from impostor to villain.
Even though 90% of my daily work revolves around JavaScript, I feel as if the "tech" label is a shiny trophy that I greedily snatched from someone more deserving. As if there are nameless, starving computer science grads out there and I’m stealing the ramen right out of their mouths.