{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Regular Programming","title":"About Code Nerds","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2171,"description":"The software development industry is very much built for code nerds. It shouldn’t be.\nMany of us know many people who are really into coding. Not every working developer can, or even should, be though. Doesn't that create kind of a weird gap between professionals who live and breathe code both on and off work, and those who have a more balanced life?\nBeing passionate about your job shouldn't be an expectation or requirement for anyone or anything.\nIs there too little space for learning - are we assumed to know too much, and assumed to spend our own time figuring out things we don't?\nYour path into coding is not, can not, and should not be the only path possible.\n\nLinks\nThe Python 2 to 3 transition\nRobert A. Heinlein in 999 Words: What Every Human Should Know\nGhost in the shell\nHarvest moon\n4x - Explore, expand, exploit, exterminate\nTDD - test-driven development\nBDD - behavior-driven development\nCharity Majors 2017 blog post about career paths for developers. (Bonus: 2019 follow-up about engineering managers)\nLate-stage capitalism\nQuotes\nI think that's perfectly healthy\nSurrounded by them\nDelving into software\nSurrounded by nerds\nMuch more reasonable answers\nWhere the nerd doesn't go so deep\nComputers are troublesome\nWhy should you be passionate about your job?\nSqueeze the passion juice\nToo passionate to defend themselves\nExperience or scar tissue?\nMany developers have lives\nPopping out for the big picture\nDoing good work takes all kinds","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C_-AHQqsYbdliFKrXsdN7TWYO9_tZENNrKOb2TIA9xc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE5MjQ1LzE2MTg5/MzM2ODUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}