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 threadCat HicksFeb 27
@glyph I CANNOT do dark mode ! But I love making silly dark mode versions of plots, so matrix
Show threadEljorgeabidesFeb 27

@grimalkina @glyph

Why don't you like dark mode? Most developers I know love it, including me

Show threadCat HicksFeb 27
@eljorgeabides @glyph it triggers headaches for me for some reason, I'm not sure why. But I have some complex eyesight issues that differ between my eyes so it's kind of a neurological+vision thing
Show threadEljorgeabides

@grimalkina @glyph

Ah ok. That's why I prefer dark mode. The light mode strains my eyes.

People are so weird

Feb 27 at 6:59pmWeb
Show threadCat HicksFeb 27
@eljorgeabides @glyph yeah brains handle the same stimuli very differently sometimes!
Show threadEmpterdoseFeb 27
@grimalkina @eljorgeabides @glyph Not just brains, but also eyes! Someone on here (I've forgotten who and can't find the thread after a quick search; sorry) was observing recently that there are optical reasons someone with astigmatism will see dark-on-light things more clearly than than light-on-dark. Certainly true for me.