Regular Programming9 Okt 2023

About Code Nerds

The software development industry is very much built for code nerds. It shouldn’t be.

Many of us know many people who are really into coding. Not every working developer can, or even should, be though. Doesn't that create kind of a weird gap between professionals who live and breathe code both on and off work, and those who have a more balanced life?

Being passionate about your job shouldn't be an expectation or requirement for anyone or anything.

Is there too little space for learning - are we assumed to know too much, and assumed to spend our own time figuring out things we don't?

Your path into coding is not, can not, and should not be the only path possible.

Links

The Python 2 to 3 transition
Robert A. Heinlein in 999 Words: What Every Human Should Know
Ghost in the shell
Harvest moon
4x - Explore, expand, exploit, exterminate
TDD - test-driven development
BDD - behavior-driven development
Charity Majors 2017 blog post about career paths for developers. (Bonus: 2019 follow-up about engineering managers)
Late-stage capitalism

Quotes

I think that's perfectly healthy
Surrounded by them
Delving into software
Surrounded by nerds
Much more reasonable answers
Where the nerd doesn't go so deep
Computers are troublesome
Why should you be passionate about your job?
Squeeze the passion juice
Too passionate to defend themselves
Experience or scar tissue?
Many developers have lives
Popping out for the big picture
Doing good work takes all kinds

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