Teen: “Excuse me; how do I become a Tech Lead like you someday”
Lead: “By simple luck of the draw I am the best at googling other people’s solutions to my team’s YAML config issues.”
Eh. Software is just data too. It’s about solving problems with systems using those systems and other systems and that’s software engineering. It’s recursive and wherever you are in the stack you’re standing on the shoulders of giants, and you’re still doing engineering. 💪
I tell people I’m a software engineer but in reality I’m a config file engineer
Senior YAML programmer
Careers Fair; 2024
Teen: “Excuse me; how do I become a Tech Lead like you someday” Lead: “By simple luck of the draw I am the best at googling other people’s solutions to my team’s YAML config issues.”
Eh. Software is just data too. It’s about solving problems with systems using those systems and other systems and that’s software engineering. It’s recursive and wherever you are in the stack you’re standing on the shoulders of giants, and you’re still doing engineering. 💪
I am working on nand2tetris right now and learning about all the layers of abstraction is just terrific.
Lol. Legitimately.