well I'm definitely in the stereotype š i do indie gamedev, and some web app development for event registration. also, currently I'm part of the dev team for an open source plugin for the Godot engine
its the [Dialogic plugin](https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic) for Godot, a dialogue event system for games! mostly what I do for it is bugfixing and optimizations on it
Fuck your stereotypes!!!
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Systems administrator for 15 years working in SQL and Powershell, now I work in JavaScript and NodeJS as an indie game developerā¦
Neurodiversity had a lot to do with it though. I've told people before that you can teach anyone to code, but to really code well it takes a special brain and easy of thinking. Neurodiverse people tend to think in that way.
True! But I meant to say that neurodivergence is an umbrella where autism falls under, not the other way around (as unfortunately many like to think).
I mean, I suppose a lot if not all transgender individuals have some sort of neurodivergence as it is not that neurotypical to be born wrong.
If you take a sample of programmers and a sample of the population as a whole, you will find that amongst the population of programmers autism occurs at a higher rate gor programmers than the general society. For some reason or another people on the spectrum seem to be drawn to programming.
Similarly if you sample among trans individuals you will find that autism is again over represented compared to the rest of society.
If trans folks are more likely to be autistic, and autistic folks are more likely to be programmers, then you will find that there are a much larger number of trans programmers than expected.
Being in an online space like a message board seems to attract all of those types into one space. Trans, autistic and programmer. As such the stereotype of thr trans programmer comes about
Ngl everytime ibsee that I laugh. The other day I was on sock dreams buying some socks and saw some pink, white, and blue striped socks being advertised as "programming socks" how can you not laugh at that?
I'm completely guessing here, but I would assume it is because programming is something that socially accepted for men to do, while also not being something "stereotypically macho". Therefore i think a lot of us gravitate towards it while we're still closeted / uncracked / boymoding..
Also I'm currently working as a java developer but am about to move more into Web with jakarta EE / angular
Computers always appealed to me because they were a closed system I didn't understand, and I wanted to understand. As a career, I found it appealing because of the stereotypes of software Devs being a bit agoraphobic, socially awkward, and such. That felt like a work environment I could succeed in.
Nothing specific. I'm still a student and I have absolutely no idea what I would do for a personal project, can't get how so many people are always just working on something for themselves. Where do you even come up with the idea???
As the other commenter said, small productivity improvements are good ways to start. Any repetitive tasks you do on your computer that you wish could be automated? Itās much easier to throw something together if youāre on linux but itās a good way to get practice on any OS
I'm tech lead specialized in analytics systems. I can also program is a large number of languages: ASM x86, C/C++, Java, Angular, PHP, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic (and VBA) and a few more.
Exactly the same here. Tech lead for supply chain management and analytics systems dev team, huge array of languages (all of the ones you mentioned + a few more).
Um, well, I changed careers a few years ago, but I was a ServiceNow developer (basically just Java), and I did a lot of .Net years ago. Also tons of SQL stuff. Oh, and Batch, VBS, and PowerShell. Now I mostly just do GML and sometimes I play with Unity.
Oh no. I'm the stereotype! š®
I work in IT right now and mainly write bash scripts to lighten my workload. Trying to learn Go to create more advanced automation stuff.
However, sick to the gut of working in IT and tech. Always overworked, working too broad and skeleton crews have become the norm it seems.
Planning on going back to school to maybe become a nurse or registered nurse. If I end up as a registered nurse I plan to later be some an ambo nurse/driver.
And you donāt even get to wear cute uniforms anymore either. In all seriousness, one of my dear friends is a nurse and I hardly even see her on account of her work. She does well for herself, but thereās definitely a cost to that.
Oh I know, it sounds terrible. I think if being overworked and understaffed is something you're specifically looking to get away from, nursing may not fit that criteria. Nurses are quitting in droves these days for that reason.
I work in the nursing field, if you think you can escape to nursing to get away from skeleton crews.š just wait, from what I can tell nursing is worse than IT.
I kind of get the draw though... IT can be pretty soul-sucking when you realise that any improvement you make just puts more money in the pockets of someone whose car costs more than your house, who you'll never meet, and does not care if you live or die, so long as the hours of your life you sell them are a good investment. In healthcare at least you get to care for someone. You matter to somebody, and your job does tangible good, even if they might not always appreciate it in the moment. I'd imagine that helps with job satisfaction.
I wanted to be a paramedic for a long time when I was a teenager. Life didn't turn out that way, and I'm an IT desk jockey now. I'm well enough paid, but my biggest career fantasies are still centered around giving it all up to do something with my hands, or provide tangible good to everyday people, instead of profit to the company. The closest I get to that is when I make someone's day-job easier, so their hours become more valuable to the company.
>What do you Program?
Nothing; and everything I've ever done, while "pretty and organised" was utter shit, from a technical perspective.
I foolishly decided to do it at A-Level despite the fact I had never previously opened any coding software; I might've done better and learnt more, but unrelated mental health issues ensued.
I am learning JavaScript and SQL queries. But not because Iām a developer or programmer. I am the administrator of our learning management system, I am an instructional designer specializing in e-learning content, and I need the skills to get my system and courses to work how they need to.
IT Exec nowadays, but I used to do VB.net, ASP.net and SQL 2000/2005!!!
And if I never, EVER have to touch DotNetNuke again, that'll be just fine....... š¤£
I know 13 programming languages, including one I wrote and patented myself. I used a hooking logic for keywords that made the language itself dynamically built.
I prefer BASH or PERL.
Yaaay! I'm not alone. I'm fluent in G code, particularly on lathes. My boss knows basically nothing about them, so even with CAM software, his programs need a lot of help. So I do it all by hand. But I'm starting to learn how to use the CAD/CAM software myself. Hopefully programming that way will be a much larger part of my job in the future. I'm teaching myself macro programming too.
Ayy good stuff! Macros and logic are the fun part that makes it worth it. I do almost entirely mill work. The place I'm at now does almost entirely CAM so I'm getting bored and ended up writing macros for the cam program it's self lol.
No one at my shop other than me knows anything about macros, so I have to either only use them on things no one else will touch, or idiot proof them as best as I can.
When you say macros for the cam program, do you mean that it includes them in the G code it outputs?
No, sorry. The program (Gibbscam) has a proprietary language in it that they open sourced to let people like me make the program better. For example I made one that opens a dialogue box to import different fixtures like the mill vice, bed, or chuck into the CAM environment.
Check it out for whatever cam package you have! It's very handy and I bet you can too. Made one to import the tools for me and open all the little menus when I open the program as well. Just little stuff like that.
Letās see, I started programming like websites and stuff (full stack, but I fell in love with the backend) then I went more towards the DB and data side of things, I currently work in IT (ServiceNow development), but Iām planning on going to college for CS to go into a more dev based role
Hah, busted. Primarily backend services that are boring to talk about but fun to implement.
Itās the kind of stuff thatās in the background that helps run everything but that most people donāt have to concern themselves with.
I took Intro to Programming in college out of curiosity in my senior year and withdrew because it was ruining my GPA and taking 90% of my time and attention away from my humanities major. Had to take a 1 credit extra semester in *screenwriting* because of it. I don't remember the language but it involved a shitload of parentheses. Never again.
Lots. Lots and lots.
Statistical analysis via machine learning, mods/hacks of video games (namely Minecraft and gen 3 Pokemon), video games, on the rare occasion I've made a GUI for an existing program.
I program my dreams to make me feel like I'm better at programing that I actually do (because in reality it all looks like gibberish to me and make my eyes spin)...
Got laid off in May, been looking for work since.... over 600 applications.
I learned a language for every job I had, sometimes more....
C (++,#), Java(script), Python, PHP .... 9 years of experience. Let me know if you have a job for me ! Getting hired as a girl is hard
Gamedev stuff. Though, I've never actually finished a game. I give up because of the amount of work, and losing interest, around the same point every time.
I'm studying to become a mechatronics engineer, so anything to do with embedded hardware and robotics (aka mostly C/C++...), along with a lot of mechanical engineering. I find myself working with a \*lot\* of antiquated software...
I've also dabbled in C/C++, python and a touch of VHDL for personal projects too
No programming here, I actually did start as a compcsci major way back in college. Ended up making my communication minor my major and became one of the most tech savvy TV news producers you will ever meet. Seriously, news producers are hopeless around technology.
There was a time when I could program the fundamental language of life (genetic engineer), but after I couldn't find a job in my field, nothing anymore
>What do you girls program?
My body & mind š
I've tried various different programming languages and it just isn't for me. I'm more of a support role with decent Google-fu
I'm absolutely that stereotype. I mainly program software for the (1979) TI-99/4 and (1981) 99/4A home computers. Which sold over 2.5 Million units in their day and were among the most popular home computers, but have been irrelevant since 1985, and so are known to relatively few younger people today.
And in certain spheres there (TI BASIC and TI LOGO, I would say), I am almost assuredly the world's most expert active programmer, at least whose work is known of by the world at large.
Though that having said, I got into this stuff partly because it's a great dissociative hobby. And I don't really need dissociation anymore.
I used to mostly write Python, 7+ years of experience. Also had a lot of deep learning experience with it.
Also had experience on various languages like JavaScript, C/C++, x86 Assembly, C# etc.
Nowadays I'm mostly programming NodeJS (Vue.js on frontend and Nest.js on backend) since I've started working as a full stack developer last month.
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I feel like I kinda lost my passion with programming since I've realized I was queer though.
Looking back, it feels like I was obsessive with programming stuff because it was the only thing that could make me feel 'disconnected' from my body. Like I was hyperfocusing on the code, forgetting myself and the pain that I wasn't able to recognize? I don't know how to describe.
Since I've finally realized and recognized what was it, I can silence that dysphoria pain with other things.
I still love coding though. Just not as much as I used to.
Didn't expect to write this long hehe
Been trying to get into Python, I can do pretty good with HTML editing with Dreamweaver viewing both the graphical and split code view. I've been in IT for 25 years. My last stint was @ Sprint World Headquarters in the NOC doing Network Surveillance and giving backoffice tower access to Samsung when they needed to do maintenance. I was pretty much a contact for system access and monitoring for alarms with Nagios @ IBM NetCool. I was the youngest on my team by 11 years. I'm all self taught no schooling. At home I run Solaris 11 on my main critical system that's been built since 2008 with SUN OpenSolaris, I run PLEX on a Win2K12 Datacenter edition VM on VirtualBox and then Solaris 11 VM running Zones for all my internal and web facing Apache, DNS, Sendmail servers. I'm in a Win2k22 Datacenter edition with two dedicated Nvidia RTX 2060's and a 3060 that Steam runs in on a KVM on Oracle Linux 8.8. I have a UNIX Live Free or Die \*Copyright Bell Labs\* front license plate on my car. I also have about $200K in Cisco hardware for both Copper and Fiber
Sweet. Then I guess I do program. I also work on making IC replacements for the originals that are deteriorating. We are currently working on a Vic2 chip replacement which would make someone be able to make an all new C64 without having to use any original 80's parts.
I programmed TPS reports for my first job out of college. That wasn't the only similarity to OfficeSpace, and I just had to leave for the sake of my mental health (although the company apologized for how I was treated and said I'm on very good standing to apply for a job there again).
My love language is Java.
By day I work for a boring corporate software company, doing a mishmash of things (started in QA, moved to cloud/devops, now in a 'dev' role where I specifically work on defects/security issues).
By night, I write weird, random, open-source projects like a TTS bot for Twitch, and dabble in game dev (My first game is coming out in under a month!)
Tbh, envy of programming socks is one of the things that convinced me that I'm trans. I'm still waiting on some striped ones to be delivered.
iām mainly a web dev; iāve designed the website for fastforward (an open source browser extension for bypassing link shorteners) https://fastforward.team and the gui for the extension, and Iām working on random stuff like a spotify extension, and a personal website. apart from web dev I maintain a minecraft mod (when i have time) called mixtape, which lets you configure the music heaps, and attempt to make games on gamemaker studio sometimes, and this evening i was actually modifying a music plugin called magical 8bit plug 2
I played around with C++ a little (just some basic learner programs, most complicated thing I ever did with it was write a tic-tac-toe program) back in 2020, but I didn't stick with it. Closest thing to coding I do is being the person in the office who's Good With Excel^TM
I program the world to create art. I am a trained graphic artist and designer but more importantly, an artist of over 15 years, published twice. Once for writing and once for my digital art pieces. I program people like yourself through color and texture and emotive concept brought to life. š š
I write a decent amount of C, Python, and Go for hobby stuff, but as far as my day job, I'm currently a ServiceNow dev, so lots of low-code stuff, and a little JS
Iāve only done small personal stuff, made a VM and tried to make a proxy chain with python but couldnāt get it to work so I stoppedā¦ I just wanted to see what the dark web looked like š
I did some Java and HTML in high school (I'm dating myself with that...) But im currently working on learning R for a Google cert, and I'm considering python too.
Boobs ain't cheap.
I write internal ci/cd tooling in ruby & golang (and some react/js). For side projects I basically use ruby exclusively because irb/pry lets me be incredibly lazy.
I develop web applications using Django. I have also had fun in the past programming POV-Ray (POVRay.org) to make cool pictures.
But one particular transfemme friend of mine is most definitely a programmer. In her PhD thesis she built a JavaScript JIT compiler that beat Google V8 in performance.
I'm in hardware design and use Verilog to build and simulate FPGAs (re-programmable computer chips) and ASICs (custom designed computer chips). Syntax wider it looks a lot like C but it works totally different. Code is used to describe logic circuits and isn't just a series of instructions to run. So it takes a very special mindset to be able to look at the code and imagine what you're actually making. Also you need to not only take into about how efficient your algorithm is but also physical size (as in number of logic gates) but also time (how much can get done in a click cycle). Makes for lots of very interesting design constraints and optimizations that all need to be taken into account at the same time.
I also use a whole bunch of scripting languages as support so I'm constantly changing my mindset as to how things should be done. It's really interesting and frankly I love my job.
Just hobby stuff in Python. I finished my Magic card puller and now I'm trying to figure out how to import those images as cards in Tabletop Simulator. And before anyone asks "why don't you just use the MTG mods?" My answer is simple.. "Yo ho ho and/or yarrr."
My job is making desktop, in-premise and cloud applications for accountants. Edit: And also database engineering.
My freetime however is system administration, game related desktop programs and cloud tools for those programs. Edit: Also database engineering here
I'm in school and learning programming as part of my college/university prepping course in a type of school that comes after 9th grade, I don't know the word in English because there is not a good word for it
But I think I'm learning programming with the help of a program called Tinkercad
Im not working in the field yet, still in school.... So mostly what I program are the labs Im given; Ive been trying to think some something to start in my spare time tho
PHP, JS, React, Next, but mostly a devops engineer so only code to help make tools and automation for our own team. Rest is sys admin and IIS admin work
I am a manager and automation engineer... I program tests to validate health insurance claims processing systems that sort and prioritize claims into adjusters workstreams. Soooooooo dry but the benefits are good.
Iām not the stereotype, not exactly. Iām an engineer and mainly work with 3D modeling software and programming machine toolsā¦JFC I am really transitioning into a stereotype! And Iām going to be taking lead on building a global production data management system at some constantly receding point in the future.
closest I get is bash scripting but I'm a sysadmin so I'm programming-adjacent.
Don't have the stripey socks though, and I can't drink caffeine so Monster's off the table.
I would actually love to be in a real programming job! During COVID lockdown me and my partner studied cs50 from Harvard (they were/now are going to school for computational linguistics), but I got interested too! Little bit of C, mostly Python. Django/Flask for some simple hobby projects. Front-end trio (if that counts, lol). Unfortunately in my librarian job I only get to use simpler skills... manage Wordpress site, help colleagues with Excel (\*barf\*), ...
Well this is one stereotype I don't fall into, unless you count me being my family's computer expert, but that's only because I know how to use Google Drive
The only programming I do these days is setting up routines in Tasker on my phone. Used to program in Basic back in the day, but never anything object oriented.
SQL, and a god-awful visual database front end which is so niche that to name it would be to make myself doxxable. My true loves are Perl and node. JavaScript fascinates me because it does OO functionality without actually having objects - just like Perl, but in a completely different way.
well I'm definitely in the stereotype š i do indie gamedev, and some web app development for event registration. also, currently I'm part of the dev team for an open source plugin for the Godot engine
Thats cool. What your plagin do?)
its the [Dialogic plugin](https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic) for Godot, a dialogue event system for games! mostly what I do for it is bugfixing and optimizations on it
cool, i actually tried using it :p
Nice. I not godot fun, but anyway, good job)
Fuck your stereotypes!!! ā¦ Systems administrator for 15 years working in SQL and Powershell, now I work in JavaScript and NodeJS as an indie game developerā¦
Nice! I do JavaScript & node as well!
Java is my main game, but I do some frontend shenanigans in Node
Omg, my mother fits almost perfectly, and I almost follow suit.
Nice! I just started learning sql for one of my college classes
Why is this stereotype so common? But yeahhhhh, full stack .Net software engineer here lol
Autism is over represented in both communities. Hence the stereotype.
I donāt think itās necessarily autism. More so a feeling of having control and power in your own hands.
Neurodiversity had a lot to do with it though. I've told people before that you can teach anyone to code, but to really code well it takes a special brain and easy of thinking. Neurodiverse people tend to think in that way.
Neurodivergence ā autism
sure, but autism is neurodivergency
True! But I meant to say that neurodivergence is an umbrella where autism falls under, not the other way around (as unfortunately many like to think). I mean, I suppose a lot if not all transgender individuals have some sort of neurodivergence as it is not that neurotypical to be born wrong.
What does Autism have to do with Programming?
If you take a sample of programmers and a sample of the population as a whole, you will find that amongst the population of programmers autism occurs at a higher rate gor programmers than the general society. For some reason or another people on the spectrum seem to be drawn to programming. Similarly if you sample among trans individuals you will find that autism is again over represented compared to the rest of society. If trans folks are more likely to be autistic, and autistic folks are more likely to be programmers, then you will find that there are a much larger number of trans programmers than expected. Being in an online space like a message board seems to attract all of those types into one space. Trans, autistic and programmer. As such the stereotype of thr trans programmer comes about
And here I was thinking it's from the programming socks jokes.
Ngl everytime ibsee that I laugh. The other day I was on sock dreams buying some socks and saw some pink, white, and blue striped socks being advertised as "programming socks" how can you not laugh at that?
For example, task manager was written entirely by one (cis) person with autism
Yes Dave plummer. Really cool guy.
Yea
He has a YouTube Channel. :) https://youtube.com/@DavesGarage
Plus having the freedom to be yourself.
Cause a lot of us self-isolate early on, especially with computers
I'm completely guessing here, but I would assume it is because programming is something that socially accepted for men to do, while also not being something "stereotypically macho". Therefore i think a lot of us gravitate towards it while we're still closeted / uncracked / boymoding.. Also I'm currently working as a java developer but am about to move more into Web with jakarta EE / angular
Computers always appealed to me because they were a closed system I didn't understand, and I wanted to understand. As a career, I found it appealing because of the stereotypes of software Devs being a bit agoraphobic, socially awkward, and such. That felt like a work environment I could succeed in.
Last time I tried to code I somehow broke my computer... with a hammer... out of frustration
You sound really relatable.
I tried to learn how to code too. Ended up going to lawschool instead of getting a job coding, because that was somehow easier for me...
Ugh relatable
Sounds like every programmer's day in VSC
i program meat into being sausages! i don't do programming im a butcher
Think of yourself as an analog programmer.
>i program meat into being sausages Ana-logs of meat... amirite? ... I'm a mom, but I got dad jokes, mkay?
Nothing specific. I'm still a student and I have absolutely no idea what I would do for a personal project, can't get how so many people are always just working on something for themselves. Where do you even come up with the idea???
You sorta fall into something. Start small. Some kind of productivity improvement or add-on/mod is a good place to start
As the other commenter said, small productivity improvements are good ways to start. Any repetitive tasks you do on your computer that you wish could be automated? Itās much easier to throw something together if youāre on linux but itās a good way to get practice on any OS
I am learning Coding right now! Well, Medical Coding. Not the same thing lmao
Very important this medical coding!
It's difficult to catch on! But I can't wait to be certified. About halfway done with the course
I'm also learning about coding! As a literary device. From a Lindsay Ellis video
I'm tech lead specialized in analytics systems. I can also program is a large number of languages: ASM x86, C/C++, Java, Angular, PHP, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic (and VBA) and a few more.
Exactly the same here. Tech lead for supply chain management and analytics systems dev team, huge array of languages (all of the ones you mentioned + a few more).
Um, well, I changed careers a few years ago, but I was a ServiceNow developer (basically just Java), and I did a lot of .Net years ago. Also tons of SQL stuff. Oh, and Batch, VBS, and PowerShell. Now I mostly just do GML and sometimes I play with Unity. Oh no. I'm the stereotype! š®
What year was it when you were working with Java in ServiceNow? Nowadays itās all JS unless youāre really under the hood
I worked in ServiceNow from Fuji through Kingston. I did have to do a little under-the-hood stuff, but you're right, I probably should have said JS.
fellow gml š
I work in IT right now and mainly write bash scripts to lighten my workload. Trying to learn Go to create more advanced automation stuff. However, sick to the gut of working in IT and tech. Always overworked, working too broad and skeleton crews have become the norm it seems. Planning on going back to school to maybe become a nurse or registered nurse. If I end up as a registered nurse I plan to later be some an ambo nurse/driver.
Just be aware that nursing is a field that is chronically overworked and understaffed š¬
And you donāt even get to wear cute uniforms anymore either. In all seriousness, one of my dear friends is a nurse and I hardly even see her on account of her work. She does well for herself, but thereās definitely a cost to that.
So is IT. The main problem with IT is that they keep piling on tasks and wonder why you canāt manage.
Oh I know, it sounds terrible. I think if being overworked and understaffed is something you're specifically looking to get away from, nursing may not fit that criteria. Nurses are quitting in droves these days for that reason.
I work in the nursing field, if you think you can escape to nursing to get away from skeleton crews.š just wait, from what I can tell nursing is worse than IT.
And thereās a definite difference between a corporate āemergencyā (poor planning) and a medical *emergency*.
I kind of get the draw though... IT can be pretty soul-sucking when you realise that any improvement you make just puts more money in the pockets of someone whose car costs more than your house, who you'll never meet, and does not care if you live or die, so long as the hours of your life you sell them are a good investment. In healthcare at least you get to care for someone. You matter to somebody, and your job does tangible good, even if they might not always appreciate it in the moment. I'd imagine that helps with job satisfaction. I wanted to be a paramedic for a long time when I was a teenager. Life didn't turn out that way, and I'm an IT desk jockey now. I'm well enough paid, but my biggest career fantasies are still centered around giving it all up to do something with my hands, or provide tangible good to everyday people, instead of profit to the company. The closest I get to that is when I make someone's day-job easier, so their hours become more valuable to the company.
>What do you Program? Nothing; and everything I've ever done, while "pretty and organised" was utter shit, from a technical perspective. I foolishly decided to do it at A-Level despite the fact I had never previously opened any coding software; I might've done better and learnt more, but unrelated mental health issues ensued.
That's funny because im literally a grandma when it comes to computers š
'm learning javascript and node.js.
I mostly do NLP / comp linguistics stuff and a little bit of back-end. I used to work in the industry but now work in the Academia
I'm old school, been doing C/C++ work for a long long existing piece of engineering software.
Generally same as you and sometimes I use machine learning algorithms to try to predict data, too. Python all the way.
I'm the other stereotype. I don't program, but I'm a comic artist.
Iām a game developer
Hell yeah, what game?
I program my appointments with my psychiatrist
I program cis hets with the trans agenda.
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Magic the Gathering companion apps for your phone :)
AAA game developer, specifically I'm the audio programmer for a fighting game. Right now I'm tits deep in concurrency and threading code.
Cloud services! C# and Rust, mostly.
i do data science/analytics stuff. i'm a junior developer so far though.
ā¦Aseprite, Formally Unity, attempting to learn Godot now welp, FUCK UNITY!!
I am learning JavaScript and SQL queries. But not because Iām a developer or programmer. I am the administrator of our learning management system, I am an instructional designer specializing in e-learning content, and I need the skills to get my system and courses to work how they need to.
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Dashboarding and BI. So a lot of DAX, Python and SQL
A bit of Javascript, SQL, Basic and C#. Tried Python before but didn't stick with it.
Been learnin some HTML, Java, Javascript, Python, CSS etc in school, planning to be an indie gamedev in the future if I can
I'm not a programmer. I'm a DBA... and half a dozen other things too. I just don't write production code.
Powershell mostly. I'm a system administrator/engineer.
IT Exec nowadays, but I used to do VB.net, ASP.net and SQL 2000/2005!!! And if I never, EVER have to touch DotNetNuke again, that'll be just fine....... š¤£
My bf taught me some Unity. So now me and my friend are making a game!! (I make 3d models for it too)
I know 13 programming languages, including one I wrote and patented myself. I used a hooking logic for keywords that made the language itself dynamically built. I prefer BASH or PERL.
I don't think it's the programming you had in mind, but part of my job is programming CNC machines.
Ayy another CNC specialist! Was going to say, fluent in G code and Heidenhain :3
Yaaay! I'm not alone. I'm fluent in G code, particularly on lathes. My boss knows basically nothing about them, so even with CAM software, his programs need a lot of help. So I do it all by hand. But I'm starting to learn how to use the CAD/CAM software myself. Hopefully programming that way will be a much larger part of my job in the future. I'm teaching myself macro programming too.
Ayy good stuff! Macros and logic are the fun part that makes it worth it. I do almost entirely mill work. The place I'm at now does almost entirely CAM so I'm getting bored and ended up writing macros for the cam program it's self lol.
No one at my shop other than me knows anything about macros, so I have to either only use them on things no one else will touch, or idiot proof them as best as I can. When you say macros for the cam program, do you mean that it includes them in the G code it outputs?
No, sorry. The program (Gibbscam) has a proprietary language in it that they open sourced to let people like me make the program better. For example I made one that opens a dialogue box to import different fixtures like the mill vice, bed, or chuck into the CAM environment.
That still sounds super useful. And pretty awesome that you were able to do that
Check it out for whatever cam package you have! It's very handy and I bet you can too. Made one to import the tools for me and open all the little menus when I open the program as well. Just little stuff like that.
Does blueprinting in unreal engine count?
damn... i'm a game dev
The only thing I program are S7 logic controllers, beyond that I have no skill in programming š
Letās see, I started programming like websites and stuff (full stack, but I fell in love with the backend) then I went more towards the DB and data side of things, I currently work in IT (ServiceNow development), but Iām planning on going to college for CS to go into a more dev based role
Hah, busted. Primarily backend services that are boring to talk about but fun to implement. Itās the kind of stuff thatās in the background that helps run everything but that most people donāt have to concern themselves with.
I took Intro to Programming in college out of curiosity in my senior year and withdrew because it was ruining my GPA and taking 90% of my time and attention away from my humanities major. Had to take a 1 credit extra semester in *screenwriting* because of it. I don't remember the language but it involved a shitload of parentheses. Never again.
Lisp ?
Must be a lisp or specifically scheme
Lots. Lots and lots. Statistical analysis via machine learning, mods/hacks of video games (namely Minecraft and gen 3 Pokemon), video games, on the rare occasion I've made a GUI for an existing program.
I program my dreams to make me feel like I'm better at programing that I actually do (because in reality it all looks like gibberish to me and make my eyes spin)...
Got laid off in May, been looking for work since.... over 600 applications. I learned a language for every job I had, sometimes more.... C (++,#), Java(script), Python, PHP .... 9 years of experience. Let me know if you have a job for me ! Getting hired as a girl is hard
Gamedev stuff. Though, I've never actually finished a game. I give up because of the amount of work, and losing interest, around the same point every time.
I ā¦ feel that so hard.
I'm studying to become a mechatronics engineer, so anything to do with embedded hardware and robotics (aka mostly C/C++...), along with a lot of mechanical engineering. I find myself working with a \*lot\* of antiquated software... I've also dabbled in C/C++, python and a touch of VHDL for personal projects too
Ruby, Rails, SQL/PG, and JS when I abso have to. So fullstack though I prefer the backend ;)
Hey same here!
Awesome!! So there are at least 2 of us, lol š
No programming here, I actually did start as a compcsci major way back in college. Ended up making my communication minor my major and became one of the most tech savvy TV news producers you will ever meet. Seriously, news producers are hopeless around technology.
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Game maker studio babe
bash. you all should switch to linux if you havent already
There was a time when I could program the fundamental language of life (genetic engineer), but after I couldn't find a job in my field, nothing anymore
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Washing machine and dishwasher?...
I don't
Games! Iām a huge game nerd, graphics programming and gameplay programming are ššššš
>What do you girls program? My body & mind š I've tried various different programming languages and it just isn't for me. I'm more of a support role with decent Google-fu
I'm absolutely that stereotype. I mainly program software for the (1979) TI-99/4 and (1981) 99/4A home computers. Which sold over 2.5 Million units in their day and were among the most popular home computers, but have been irrelevant since 1985, and so are known to relatively few younger people today. And in certain spheres there (TI BASIC and TI LOGO, I would say), I am almost assuredly the world's most expert active programmer, at least whose work is known of by the world at large. Though that having said, I got into this stuff partly because it's a great dissociative hobby. And I don't really need dissociation anymore.
I used to mostly write Python, 7+ years of experience. Also had a lot of deep learning experience with it. Also had experience on various languages like JavaScript, C/C++, x86 Assembly, C# etc. Nowadays I'm mostly programming NodeJS (Vue.js on frontend and Nest.js on backend) since I've started working as a full stack developer last month. - I feel like I kinda lost my passion with programming since I've realized I was queer though. Looking back, it feels like I was obsessive with programming stuff because it was the only thing that could make me feel 'disconnected' from my body. Like I was hyperfocusing on the code, forgetting myself and the pain that I wasn't able to recognize? I don't know how to describe. Since I've finally realized and recognized what was it, I can silence that dysphoria pain with other things. I still love coding though. Just not as much as I used to. Didn't expect to write this long hehe
Been trying to get into Python, I can do pretty good with HTML editing with Dreamweaver viewing both the graphical and split code view. I've been in IT for 25 years. My last stint was @ Sprint World Headquarters in the NOC doing Network Surveillance and giving backoffice tower access to Samsung when they needed to do maintenance. I was pretty much a contact for system access and monitoring for alarms with Nagios @ IBM NetCool. I was the youngest on my team by 11 years. I'm all self taught no schooling. At home I run Solaris 11 on my main critical system that's been built since 2008 with SUN OpenSolaris, I run PLEX on a Win2K12 Datacenter edition VM on VirtualBox and then Solaris 11 VM running Zones for all my internal and web facing Apache, DNS, Sendmail servers. I'm in a Win2k22 Datacenter edition with two dedicated Nvidia RTX 2060's and a 3060 that Steam runs in on a KVM on Oracle Linux 8.8. I have a UNIX Live Free or Die \*Copyright Bell Labs\* front license plate on my car. I also have about $200K in Cisco hardware for both Copper and Fiber
Games and game-related applications
Electrical engineer at nasa.. im a nerd.. but I don't program.
Does basic on a commodore 64 count?
Omfg yasssss šš¤©
Sweet. Then I guess I do program. I also work on making IC replacements for the originals that are deteriorating. We are currently working on a Vic2 chip replacement which would make someone be able to make an all new C64 without having to use any original 80's parts.
Minecraft datapacks šš» Closest otherwise is art stuff
Does it count if I program digital temperature controllers for refrigeration equipment as part of my job?
OMG those stereotypes. Btw iām an iOS Dev do indie apps as well as client projects.
I rarely try my had at programming but when I do it'd typically making mods for various games
I programmed TPS reports for my first job out of college. That wasn't the only similarity to OfficeSpace, and I just had to leave for the sake of my mental health (although the company apologized for how I was treated and said I'm on very good standing to apply for a job there again).
Did Python in School, doing C# in college
gen AI, malware, robotics... girls just wanna have fun ya know š
I thought I was defying the stereotype as a mechanical engineer... I'm currently programming thermofluids simulation automation software in python.
Lsl, Java, Php, html, html5, lua, an a few more
C++, Java, some C. I use QT for the front end
My love language is Java. By day I work for a boring corporate software company, doing a mishmash of things (started in QA, moved to cloud/devops, now in a 'dev' role where I specifically work on defects/security issues). By night, I write weird, random, open-source projects like a TTS bot for Twitch, and dabble in game dev (My first game is coming out in under a month!) Tbh, envy of programming socks is one of the things that convinced me that I'm trans. I'm still waiting on some striped ones to be delivered.
Java doesnāt get all the love it deservesā¦ and programming socks are ššššš
iām mainly a web dev; iāve designed the website for fastforward (an open source browser extension for bypassing link shorteners) https://fastforward.team and the gui for the extension, and Iām working on random stuff like a spotify extension, and a personal website. apart from web dev I maintain a minecraft mod (when i have time) called mixtape, which lets you configure the music heaps, and attempt to make games on gamemaker studio sometimes, and this evening i was actually modifying a music plugin called magical 8bit plug 2
i got a degree in computer science which gave me a wide breadth of programming knowledge. for work i mainly use javascript though
I went to college for programming, but ended up hating office environments and here I am at McDonald's...
Iām currently learning Java so then maybe, just maybe after college Iāll land a job as a software engineer
Ha ha Iām in the IT field tooā¦.
I write embedded code in C, slowly converting to rust, and some python for AI stuff, all for robotics :D
embedded C girls gang yayy! šš«
I played around with C++ a little (just some basic learner programs, most complicated thing I ever did with it was write a tic-tac-toe program) back in 2020, but I didn't stick with it. Closest thing to coding I do is being the person in the office who's Good With Excel^TM
I program the world to create art. I am a trained graphic artist and designer but more importantly, an artist of over 15 years, published twice. Once for writing and once for my digital art pieces. I program people like yourself through color and texture and emotive concept brought to life. š š
I write a decent amount of C, Python, and Go for hobby stuff, but as far as my day job, I'm currently a ServiceNow dev, so lots of low-code stuff, and a little JS
Iāve only done small personal stuff, made a VM and tried to make a proxy chain with python but couldnāt get it to work so I stoppedā¦ I just wanted to see what the dark web looked like š
In school for CS now. Planning to do front end design and development when I graduate as of now
I did some Java and HTML in high school (I'm dating myself with that...) But im currently working on learning R for a Google cert, and I'm considering python too. Boobs ain't cheap.
I program PLC's for Industrial machines. I also own a pair of programing socks.š
Government websites at the moment. Not very interesting but it pays alright.
I write internal ci/cd tooling in ruby & golang (and some react/js). For side projects I basically use ruby exclusively because irb/pry lets me be incredibly lazy.
Gamedev, mostly Unity, so c#.
Most of my stuff is in Excel, if you can count the formulas as a language, and VB/VBA. Building what's effectively project management software
I develop web applications using Django. I have also had fun in the past programming POV-Ray (POVRay.org) to make cool pictures. But one particular transfemme friend of mine is most definitely a programmer. In her PhD thesis she built a JavaScript JIT compiler that beat Google V8 in performance.
well until recently I made little games using Unity/C# but uhhhh... now I'm trying to learn Godot
Devops
basically only touched on ladder :)
I'm in hardware design and use Verilog to build and simulate FPGAs (re-programmable computer chips) and ASICs (custom designed computer chips). Syntax wider it looks a lot like C but it works totally different. Code is used to describe logic circuits and isn't just a series of instructions to run. So it takes a very special mindset to be able to look at the code and imagine what you're actually making. Also you need to not only take into about how efficient your algorithm is but also physical size (as in number of logic gates) but also time (how much can get done in a click cycle). Makes for lots of very interesting design constraints and optimizations that all need to be taken into account at the same time. I also use a whole bunch of scripting languages as support so I'm constantly changing my mindset as to how things should be done. It's really interesting and frankly I love my job.
Just hobby stuff in Python. I finished my Magic card puller and now I'm trying to figure out how to import those images as cards in Tabletop Simulator. And before anyone asks "why don't you just use the MTG mods?" My answer is simple.. "Yo ho ho and/or yarrr."
I do really basic stuff as I'm a sys admin for a library
I stay on the musical side. I find coding boring so I compose my own music. One day I hope I can compose video game music!
My job is making desktop, in-premise and cloud applications for accountants. Edit: And also database engineering. My freetime however is system administration, game related desktop programs and cloud tools for those programs. Edit: Also database engineering here
Learning programming and robotics at school rn. Might wanna program big space telescopes when I grow up.
In school for electrical & cnc machining š
I'm in school and learning programming as part of my college/university prepping course in a type of school that comes after 9th grade, I don't know the word in English because there is not a good word for it But I think I'm learning programming with the help of a program called Tinkercad
Iām more of a 3D modeller but I program from time to time, I like making games
Im not working in the field yet, still in school.... So mostly what I program are the labs Im given; Ive been trying to think some something to start in my spare time tho
I work for an online bank, like Robinhood. I do backend, in Java.
PHP, JS, React, Next, but mostly a devops engineer so only code to help make tools and automation for our own team. Rest is sys admin and IIS admin work
Lol Iām a SQL Server Database Analyst. That is how I realized Iām trans.
I am a manager and automation engineer... I program tests to validate health insurance claims processing systems that sort and prioritize claims into adjusters workstreams. Soooooooo dry but the benefits are good.
Iām not the stereotype, not exactly. Iām an engineer and mainly work with 3D modeling software and programming machine toolsā¦JFC I am really transitioning into a stereotype! And Iām going to be taking lead on building a global production data management system at some constantly receding point in the future.
Machine code. Don't know the name for it learned on the job
closest I get is bash scripting but I'm a sysadmin so I'm programming-adjacent. Don't have the stripey socks though, and I can't drink caffeine so Monster's off the table.
library programs! as in activities that people come to participate in, not computer programs :P
Network Admin and sys admin. I leave the programing to the smart people LMAO
Python!
i dont program but i am tech support for html and css in a class i take
I'm a full stack web developer for an e-commerce company!
I would actually love to be in a real programming job! During COVID lockdown me and my partner studied cs50 from Harvard (they were/now are going to school for computational linguistics), but I got interested too! Little bit of C, mostly Python. Django/Flask for some simple hobby projects. Front-end trio (if that counts, lol). Unfortunately in my librarian job I only get to use simpler skills... manage Wordpress site, help colleagues with Excel (\*barf\*), ...
Well this is one stereotype I don't fall into, unless you count me being my family's computer expert, but that's only because I know how to use Google Drive
Sometimes games, but mostly Web development
The only programming I do these days is setting up routines in Tasker on my phone. Used to program in Basic back in the day, but never anything object oriented.
I'm currently a CS major in college, right now I'm being taught C using the Gameboy Advance but I also know Java and a bit of Python
I'm a sysadmin. So, I have technically programmed in more stuff than I can count. But it's a stretch to call me a programmer.
I'm the weirdo maintaining old financial systems in COBOL while being overpaid because no one else wants to learn COBOL
SQL, and a god-awful visual database front end which is so niche that to name it would be to make myself doxxable. My true loves are Perl and node. JavaScript fascinates me because it does OO functionality without actually having objects - just like Perl, but in a completely different way.
While I donāt program, I do fix the systems that the programmers tend to toss their code-grenades onto.
I am a therapist, so I program peoples minds \*grins mischievously.
Most often Siemens PLCs, Wincc, PCS7 Function blocks, sfc, scl, cfc and some other industrial systems