Can’t think of anything that could serve a major need right now, but I absolutely identified things in my life where I could use a preexisting tool to accomplish my goal, but it’s much less hassle for me to use the one I made for myself. You don’t have to transform the world, sometimes you can help yourself with a minor inconvenience and then put it out there for anyone who might find themselves with the same inconvenience.

Yeahh exactly. AI has pretty much ruined computer based fun now. Which in some ways is good, we should all learn physical hobbies again and not be reliant on tech. I still enjoy my hobby desktop computers though, I just enjoy learning how it really works under the surface.

The moon landing by hand wouldn’t have been as funny without the over the top body builders first.

Depends how far you go back. The top half is pretty representative of the professional dev team I was in in 1992.

We need to bring back 2010-2012 rage comic memes. All we needed was a badly cut-out blonde wig to trans Derp’s gender.

“Creates a whole game in assembly” is probably referring to roller coaster tycoon, which was written by a man. (lots of other games were written in asm, like many NES games, but I’d wager RCT was what they were alluding to)

No, I don’t think so. It’s true that many of the earliest programmers were female, but there were very few of them, and that was a long time ago.

In a way, Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, but she never even touched a computer. The first programmers who did anything similar to today’s programming were from Grace Hopper’s era in the 1950s.

In the late 1960s there were a lot of women working in computer programming relative to the size of the field, but the field was still tiny, only tens of thousands globally. By the 1970s it was already a majority male profession so the number of women was already down to only about 22.5%.

That means that for 50 years, a time when the number of programmers increased by orders of magnitude, the programmers were mostly male.

“too patriarchal” no one was thinking of “furthering the goals of the patriarchy” or whatever your delusions tell you.

It’s just people making memes, and most people who make memes who are guys will make memes with guys in them, because they identify with them the most.

Your brain dead take is pure cancer.

Obligatory Grace Hopper

I often found the correct answers in the comments of an answer

May the :helpgrep be ever on their side

I read that as he created a game in assembly, and can’t quit vim. Whether technically or sexually is up to OP to say. And what’s the game?

Everybody complaining about css like “but it doesn’t do what I want if to do without me investing a minute into why”.

Ironically, it’s oh so often the RTFM crowd.

When you turn 40 do they issue you a lawn or do you not turn 40 until you have a lawn?

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