How do you define yourself? I used to call myself a ``tech guy'' or ``programmer'' or whatever. I studied it in university. I do it for work. I do tech stuff for fun, or at least I used to. But that was during my naive bugman phase of life. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bug%20man As time goes on, I am becoming increasingly disillusioned with tech and programming (and, on a more general level, modern life as a whole). I no longer want to consider it part of my identity, even though it's my livelihood.
What about you, /prog/? Do you call yourself a programmer or developer? Do you even like technology? Any other thoughts on this matter?
I code, therefore I am. But I am a "generalis homo". Coding is so central to my life, that I run away from computers and their ilk IRL. Have never owned a cell-phone or smartphone. Never take my computer anymore to the coffee shop. Read /prog/ solely out of boredom. Live through each day just to enter a fsscinating dream-world every night. Write code that nobody else can grok. Don't care; don't share. Have been kicked off and banned from more websites than most /proggers/ can imagine. Spend part of each day at the bottom of a lake, clawing through the silt for treasure with a three-prong garden-tool. Scrounge for coins at fast-food drive-thru windows. Ponder the imponderables. Glad to be alive when by all rights should have died ages ago. Attracted to the Ultimate Mysteries -- smallest things; largest things; oldest things; most complex things. They'll never take me alive.
I'm a husband, a lover, a carpenter, a cook, a flautist, and i dabble on the irish bodhrán. But when I put on my robe and wizard hat I am a wizard, and I conjure the spirits of the computer with my spells.
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Anonymous2018-07-22 18:56
>>5 Is that a twitter bio? So many titles in so few characters.
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Anonymous2018-07-22 19:02
>>6 Actually the first part is from season 4 episode 6 of The Thick Of It, combined elegantly with
I've never really considered myself a 'programmer' or 'coder', even though I do it full time. I did not go to university either, so didn't really have a phase for finding my identity. Whenever I introduce myself I might call myself a 'Rails developer' if I'm confident the person knows what I'm talking about, otherwise I just skirm around my job because I do not wish to bore the other person with an explanation. That being said, I'd say anyone proficient in C can call themselves a 'hacker'.
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Anonymous2018-07-23 9:32
you cannot call yourself a heakcer unless you wear black shades and a leather coat
To make the tool of your trade a part of your identity sounds like a good way to become defensive about its flaws. Ramming /prog/s isn't a part of my identity even though it's what I do the most.