Dragon Con Side Quest Activated!
DragonCon Sidequest Activated!
Greetings, adventurers! CodeDrifters has descended upon DragonCon with epic loot: three exclusive badge ribbons! Do you have what it takes to collect them all?
Your Mission:
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Snap a pic of your legendary cosplay or any awesome sight at DragonCon.
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Use all three hashtags:
#codedrifters,#dragoncon,#techstackbrewing. -
Locate our team (pictured) at the “Imposter! Getting Over Yourself” panel.
- When: Saturday, 8:30 PM | Where: Hilton - Crystal Ballroom
Present your posts to to these fine fellows to claim your ribbons! Each post earns a different design, so complete the quest three times to master the collection!
Come for the treasure, stay for the wisdom.
Our Main Quest: Battling the Imposter Syndrome Boss
This panel is important to us because, like many adventurers, we face our own dragons. In the world of tech and business, one of the biggest and most challenging is imposter syndrome. Here’s a look at how it shows up for developers.
The Developer’s Ghost in the Machine
For developers, imposter syndrome isn’t a bug; it’s a persistent, background process. It’s that feeling of dread during a code review, convinced that this is the moment everyone discovers you’ve just been cleverly Googling your way through a career. It thrives in the ever-expanding universe of technology, where the moment you master one framework, three more have already taken its place.
Developers often experience this as:
- The Comparison Curse: Glancing at a senior dev’s elegant code or a Stack Overflow answer and feeling like a fraud for not thinking of it first.
- “Knowledge Gap” Anxiety: The fear that you’ll be asked about a specific tool you haven’t touched and be “exposed” as unqualified, despite your successful work.
- Crediting the Tools, Not the Talent: When a feature finally works, the immediate thought isn’t “I solved it,” but rather, “Wow, I got lucky,” or “Thank goodness for that library.”
This constant feeling of being just one step away from being found out turns personal victories into temporary reliefs rather than earned successes.
Whether you’re a developer, an artist, a creator, or a business owner, that feeling is a boss battle we all have to face. But no adventurer should have to go it alone. That’s the entire reason we’re attending this panel—to join a space for our community to connect on something real.
We hope you’ll join us for the fun of the ribbon quest, but we’d be even more thrilled if you stayed for the conversation. We look forward to seeing you at the Hilton Crystal Ballroom on Saturday night!