This is why I’ve always found software engineer to be a better description of what we get up to than developer tbh
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Developer is so vague. Everyone is talking about different things.
I stick to my self proclaimed systems engineer title. I like engineering systems. That’s what I do day in day out
I'm so much all over the place that I'm struggling to even define what I do.
I consider the programming I do for the actual product to also just be "helping out" because we're short on staff. It all feels like I'm just bringing people coffee, or something, but digital.
Impostor syndrome is real and an issue
What do you work on?
At the moment? Trying to get my laptop to a point where I can compile something on it. Just switched computers, when I gave up my job.
For the project? I did a lot of design and now I'm working on an OpenAPI and a CLI, both in Python. And a bot and a relay, and I'm thinking about adding some nodes to our remote server (Bitcoin, Lightning, and eCash mint).
But I've gotten side-tracked with writing a simple Nostr client, just to try it out. Feel like that's some sort of right-of-passage that I skipped, and I should know how it works.