"I'm a full stack engineer"
❌ boring
❌ corporate
❌ cliched

"I can make computers suffer in myriad ways"
✅ distinctive
✅ mysterious
✅ they deserve it

@daedalus Full stack engineers are mountain bike riders.
@allrite @daedalus and set back computer science / software engineering by two decades.

@daedalus I think the subject and the object of that last one are round the wrong way

“Computer can make me suffer in myriad ways”

@simon_w @daedalus

✅ Build and Configure
✅ Get them running a specific set of tasks
✅ Fix them when they inevitably break

😉🤷‍♂️

[mentionuserid="1e01c038-d70d-4816-ab4a-1493094b0922"] how do I explain that I am a masochist who uses javascript? (well tecnically typescript but yeah)

@gabboman @daedalus

Typescript was developed by #Microsoft.
No one ever got fired for using #Microsoft!

@daedalus empty queue engineers when?
@daedalus “I command sentient sand”
@daedalus I prefer to play them like a piano and tickle them when they misbehave.

@daedalus

Do you make the computer suffer... or does the computer make you suffer?

@daedalus

"I have managed to hack our code into a conistently monitored virus that will run cost-effectively and securely on Other People's Computers so our website Never Goes Down. Legally!"

(Boring corpo: I am dev/sec/ops for hybrid cloud)

@daedalus

"I'm an artificial intelligence engineer"
❌ boring
❌ corporate
❌ buzzwordy

"I can introduce sand to the horrors of humanity in grueling and methodical ways"
✅ distinctive
✅ mysterious
✅ no buzzwords

@daedalus "I can make BOTH users AND computers suffer"

There I fixed it 🤣

@daedalus

"I can make computers rejoice in myriad ways"
✅ distinctive
✅ mysterious
✅ sound like a cult leader

@daedalus I’ve always gone with “Computers bend to my will.”
@daedalus I am a magic sand agitator, I always have been and likely always will be.

@daedalus

If you haven't debugged the ethernet driver, you ain't no full stack engineer.

Whenever I hear full stack engineer, my mind turns to the cooks at the back of an IHOP.

@daedalus that phrase always implies the existance of Half-Stack Engineers
@daedalus what if i do that without being an engineer at all does the universe explode
@daedalus Also works for security engineers x3

@daedalus

Me responding to a web engineering ticket that falls into the systems queue

@daedalus I know how to trick rocks into thinking *all* the thoughts.
@daedalus Computers were a mistake, but not _enough of one_. :)
@daedalus You're not truly full stack unless you write both front-end code and the kernel device drivers that display it. 🙂
@stuartl oh I have made I/O microcontrollers suffer by running my code, believe me