Cat HicksFeb 27

I enjoy when using tech tools on my extremely femme-gendered hobby projects makes them feel out-of-genre important

What an interesting way to trigger some stereotype incongruence and realize how much "tech weight" we give things just by all these relatively shallow signifiers

Show threadCat HicksFeb 27
Look at that font. She must have a hacker brain
Show threadCat HicksFeb 27
Are there things that make work "look Technical" to you? Are there secret signifiers you have become aware of? I love hearing people notice these things
Show threadGlyphFeb 27
@grimalkina off the top of my head: monospaced fonts, dark mode, hosting things in source control, customer service with issue trackers rather than ticketing systems, Markdown (sort of, that gets complicated), command-line instructions or aesthetics
Show threadGuyFeb 27
@glyph @grimalkina diagrams in Visio/Figma, as opposed to Miro boards which tend to be used by people coded as non-technical
Show threadGuyFeb 27
@glyph @grimalkina additionally, using keyboard shortcuts and macros; anything that involves changing options, installing additional software. Particularly in corporate environments where non-technical staff don't usually have rights to install anything, having non standard software installed is a flex of sorts
Show threadDirk WillrodtFeb 27

@flexasync @glyph @grimalkina
I am that cliché.

Using a different keyboard layout.
Know how to exit vim
And the extension of that: use vim keybindings wherever possible.

But then again, I knew/know some brilliant techy people who where pretty vanilla operating system persons 🤷‍♂️

Show threadGuyFeb 27
@Garonenur @glyph @grimalkina can definitely go different ways. Apart from dark mode, which does help me, I try to minimise customising the OS these days, I just make sure I install my toolkit
Show threadDirk Willrodt

@flexasync @glyph @grimalkina

In a corporate environ I would prefer to get a closed corporate machine - with the only extension, that I can run a virtual machine in it.
That will be heavily customized - which reduces all the setup, if I have to switch machines (just take the VM with me) and does not require me to have admin/installation rights in a corporate environment.
but I digress

Feb 27 at 6:49pmWeb