I feel like the technical fedi and the open source world in general suffers from a severe lack of science communicators. Even technical writers expect a level of technical prowess from their audience.
There's no reason why this knowledge must seem so arcane to non-developers like me.
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I would argue that even as e.g. a software developer, one is stuck inside a certain ecosystem, a specific tech stack with its own culture, so that ideas from other corners of the same profession sound... weird, or wrong.
There is so much stuff that makes a lot of sense if one doesn't look at the naked tools or docs, but at the whole... texture and the lived experience of another group. (I mean, that goes in general, but sometimes it seems to me as if especially in software there is this imagined "objective common ground" that everyone can agree on.)
@wakame I mean, yeah, there's a subculture around every bit of it, but there's a lot more interdisciplinary things happening at the intersection of science and even mathematics, than people who consider themselves developers.
Which is wild if you think about it, because coding is literally applied mathematics. Everything you do is applied in a different field!!! But so few people seek to actually bridge the gap beyond UX.
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