Ꮢ๐ϲoᴄo Ⅿoԁｅm ᏴaｓіliｓkMay 12, 2017

Job titles of the near future:

* Software gardener (the intersection of devops & maintenance)

* Software archaeologist (maintenance of old but important systems)

* Software anthropologist (maintenance of old but important systems whose behavior is confusing)

* Software documentary editor (a software anthropologist that annotates old broken software & its documentation for software historians)

* Software historian (studies old versions of software to make it understandable to modern users)

Show threadAlan Zimmerman
@enkiv2 we already talk about gardening in our dev process. kind of pro actively managing technical debt. pulling weeds, fixing fences.
Sep 20, 2017 at 7:04amWeb
Show threadᏒ๐ϲoᴄo Ⅿoԁｅm ᏴaｓіliｓkSep 20, 2017
@alanz
I think what we really need is more software mythographers/folklorists. The lore is incredibly important -- it affects decisions way more than reality does -- and as far as I'm aware only two or three people seriously attempted to document it (ESR and the author of The Devouring Fungus, and maybe the authors of Fire in the Valley but it's unclear that they know they're documenting folklore).
Show threadᏒ๐ϲoᴄo Ⅿoԁｅm ᏴaｓіliｓkSep 20, 2017
@alanz
Plus, now image macro culture (i.e., faxlore via imageboard) is having huge impacts beyond the tech industry -- and somehow the original faxlore is still barely studied.