She/they let’s stop the ongoing climate genocides

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  • It is, but it’s also real shit. Basically shows how the structure of the systems that people have to use every day, that their bosses buy for them because most workplaces aren’t democracies, is determined by the incentives that devs have in their workplace. The latest Business Fad like agile scrum vs waterfall, or whatever is cool now, and also how bonus structures work + how the company culture works, all directly or indirectly affect the way software works. That’s why studying sociology and anthropology is important, because then we can design incentive structures that get people making good software that serves humanity. I don’t know if such a thing is possible under capitalism with a profit motive. I think in a postcapitalist world we could have honor and other social rewards go to the person whose software helps people the most. We are a long way off from that.






  • Basically there is a stereotype that a lot of trans girls are programmers, and thigh high socks are a stereotype of trans girls along with blahaj ownership as well. There are a lot of chasers on 4chan and some trans folks as well. Therefore some anon shopped a picture of an Amazon listing to say “programming socks” to poke fun at the two stereotypes. People embraced it so much that the socks started showing up on Amazon when you search “programming socks”. As for a specific programming language, I have seen Rust associated with trans women.

    I for one don’t think estrogen has made me better at coding at all. I tried to do Rustlings before and didn’t have time to follow through with it, but maybe I should give it another go.













  • Agreed, in my limited experience with both CSS is like the conceptual opposite of assembly. When I do web design I tell it what I want to look like but can’t see how it’s getting there because that’s done for me. Assembly is the lowest level of abstraction we’ve got and it took me ages to write a little program for class that returns an argument in it (Jasmin VM) and then get GCC to compile it.

    I would say that CSS is like doing an incantation that magically makes the site look good if you do it right, and assembly is like building something by hand.