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   tupsu (tupsu@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 02:54:38 JST tupsu

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   @noracodes that said, I am now fascinated by the semantics of the term "programmer" and how its definition has shifted. like, in a way, configuring a network switch is programming but at least in my social circles, programming very much refers to writing code

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     tupsu (tupsu@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 02:54:40 JST tupsu

     @noracodes as someone who is really not a programmer but very definitely something resembling a network engineer, the way you've defined the audience here is breaking my brain a little bit

     I guess I see the idea behind using "programmer" as the catch-all term to refer to people who work or tinker with IT, but at the same time this feels like a very familiar type of, uh, "IT erasure" (I last had to explain I do not write code despite studying IT to someone last week)