most women dont give a fuck about “building stuff”; it’s a big contributor to the lack of them in engineering
etsy got thru this by re-positioning software engineering into something more femme: “code as craft”
Discussion
Nostr is almost ready to "support" crafting of something beautiful.
We don't need to make all features useful, it should be as important to support features that are beautiful (or cool or whatevs).
Allow building with voice commands, with emojis, with hardware buttons, with videos, with recordings, with physical glue and fabrics...
As a Brazilian, it's hard for me to grasp the subtle difference between building and crafting.
there isn’t really a difference where code is concerned, it’s just how you describe what you’re doing to people 🤷
coding is so ephemeral, the analogy we use to describe it is semi arbitrary. a lot of great coders refer to the work they do as “digital plumbers”
This is clear to me as they are probably mainly working on the efficiency and efficacy of the infrastructure, cleaning and connecting pipelines, just like data engineers also refer to themselves as plumbers in the data stack, which is an analogy that wouldn't work for data analysts and data scientists.