Who are these employees? I don't know any developers who get paid overtime. Even at shitty companies with shitty pay I have worked at least 55 hrs/week and during launches over 70 hrs/week.
Love this post. Brings up the question of are we solving problems are merely difficult puzzles? "Modern programmer culture fetishizes complexity as a status marker or tribal initiation ritual"
As someone who has written apps in Lua using Corona SDK. This is exciting. Syntax looks a lot like Lua/Ruby and we are not stuck using the watered down version of Lua that Corona provides.
I agree with your wife, also avoid tech conf and women tech meetups because I am afraid. Most of us are trying to be do our job well, improve how we code etc, build something useful perhaps BUT this back and forth makes it very difficult.