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I made a cute little animation about the idea for a talk earlier this year. I think we all have a little left and right brain thinking in us.

Iremember when coders were two fingered nerds. 0000100010110001111000

the goat

There are software projects where I’m a plumber (probably most of them), but occasionally I do still get the pleasure of being the sculptor.

*james, goddamit

it’s impossible for me to review any tragic infra-built UI stuff without my brain going “IS THIS THE WORK OF ZEUS HAMMER!?!!”

As though mere paint could capture the beauty of perfect plumbing.

it’s a complete renaissance period for me, female version of my dad (58 year old lifetime construction worker)

i think it depends on the type of work they do some is art, and some really isnt, and there's a lot of space between there but it also isnt a physical thing. there's no building to touch. analogies to physical things can seem further away than analogues to concepts and expression

image of the first guy with a claude-ended roller dipping it in the tokens remaining bucket and then painting the codebase wall

i always thought coders who called themselves artists were speaking metaphorically, like in a taking pride in your craft-sense

organizational ballmer peak

hence my bio: byte plumber specializing in elixirlang

Relatedly, I'm a fan of the term "computer janitor" for IT/sysadmins.

Knuth himself talked about coding as art (dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....) and who am I to disagree with him?

if you're tricky enough with it they'll hang your lines in the louvre

they're calling it the most backend dev post of all time

that's true! the people who keep doing it face increasing isolation as everyone else moves on, which isnt easy, but it also isnt about the tech itself art never dies, but artistic mediums do. it happens when no one cares to use them anymore

i think the most neutral framing i can put on this is that humans are sentimental

doll is normal and can be trusted with the information forklift ^_^