I am close to your age range. I have 22 years of C#, 27 years of HTML/JS/CSS, and I am still coding.
I took this job as a remote IC with a very small team of senior devs who could help them replace their old, highly complex but aging system. From scratch. I am lead on large portions of it and I contribute a lot of code on all sides.
I often find myself with the "get off my lawn!" attitude when I see a lot of the new stuff. When SPAs came along I thought it was crazy. Now I'm lead on an Angular project with C# APIs.
I haven't run into ageism yet but that has mostly come down to having this much experience. Hopefully, companies will hire based on who can understand all of this complexity and get the job done, not how old you are. In that case, it's a benefit.
I want to code. That's what I enjoy. I never wanted to manage. So far, so good.
I don't have any resources to provide to link up with other developers our age. But they are out there. For example, on HN, since I am one :)
I took this job as a remote IC with a very small team of senior devs who could help them replace their old, highly complex but aging system. From scratch. I am lead on large portions of it and I contribute a lot of code on all sides.
I often find myself with the "get off my lawn!" attitude when I see a lot of the new stuff. When SPAs came along I thought it was crazy. Now I'm lead on an Angular project with C# APIs.
I haven't run into ageism yet but that has mostly come down to having this much experience. Hopefully, companies will hire based on who can understand all of this complexity and get the job done, not how old you are. In that case, it's a benefit.
I want to code. That's what I enjoy. I never wanted to manage. So far, so good.
I don't have any resources to provide to link up with other developers our age. But they are out there. For example, on HN, since I am one :)