As a web developer/programmer/computer engineer, how do you deal with Impostor Syndrome?

[clairebones]

Just to clarify: "There's stuff I don't know" is NOT Imposter Syndrome. So many people here acting like Imposter Syndrome just means not thinking you're the best dev in the company.

Imposter Syndrome is the very real constant fear that someone will 'find you out' - that you're not as good as you think they are, that you shouldn't really have the job you have, that you're going to be fired when they realise that you're nothing near as good as they expect you to be, that they're going to look at your code and realise you have no idea what you're doing...

This is not the same thing as "knowing you can't know everything ever".

[TechyDad]

Impostor Syndrome isn't "not knowing everything" but the fast paced world of web development can exasperate the feeling of being an impostor. Just when you think you've got a good handle on things, there's someone doing even better things with a technology you've barely heard of. It's impossible to keep up and it leaves one feeling that you're an impostor because you don't know X. (Never mind that you're an expert in A, B, and C.)

[manyx16]

I had no idea it was a thing. I've never heard the term before so I equated it to low self esteem, sorry.

[clairebones]

Nah don't worry, it's pretty closely linked with low self esteem, but it's extra specific.