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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
catileptic@chaos.social ("Alex / catileptic") wrote:
after more than a decade as an intruder in the software development industry, i feel like i've finally seen enough of technology & politics to retroactively contextualize all my pain
the way my body looks and my insistence on coherent affect really did not make me a "good programmer" from the point-of-view of my former colleagues and superiors
now i can "see like a government". i can also see like the profit-driven industry that is allergic to affect as such
related: https://ashwinsundar.com/posts/legibility-and-programming/