#brogrammers

[city-of-filia-info-center]

From the Vault

Hope Jeff stocked his meatlocker.

-Doug

[queenlua]

someone portmanteau'd "bro" together with yet another word

so unfortunately all my avenues for discussing literature have become temporarily utterly unusable

[soft-galaxies]

just saw pictures of the de-yassified peter capaldi in the latest season of black mirror. this may be the worst thing charlie brooker's ever done to me

[machinavocis]

a tragedy in 2 acts.

[lawrenceofbessarabia]

never thought getting into derivatives pricing would be how I relearned C++

[drdemonprince]

ok so, what if I was having an affair and decided to link up in Chicago. what'd be the best place for a drink and some fun?

scream. Are you trying to fuck them at the spot? Are you gay?

Assuming yes, I would recommend having a cute little Aperol Spritz on the patio of Sofo Tap (or a thc drink, they have them!) then head upstairs to Banana Video and pay the $10 cover to wander around their darkrooms and pick a spot where you'd like to fuck. That's what it's there for. All genders can go tho it skews gay male. This is the most romantic, cutesy option for a drink and fuck spot.

If you're into leather or kink and don't mind basic well drinks, Cell Block on Halsted has a backroom for fucking with a sex swing, a cage for go-go dancers, and theme nights. This is the place to throw back a White Claw and then suck your lover's dick while other (mostly) men around you do the same.

If you want to show off a little bit, head up north to Jackhammer for a cocktail or an IPA (they have a decent menu), flirt over a game of pool or some darts and then head downstairs into "The Hole" where you'll find a St Andrews cross, showers, lockers, a clothing check, a room of sex swings, and a second bar. This one is the brightest and the most lysol-clean option, it's like fucking in an Orange Theory Fitness if it had a hotel bar.

If you're straight, get a short-term membership at Galleria Domain 2 (if youre a brogrammer pleasure dom who is sober) or The Chicago Rose (if youre an unpretentious ass eater who likes Miller High Life).

now maybe by "fun" you didnt mean fucking, those are just the bars you can fuck at. If you just want a romantic illicit place to grab a cocktail and a date, i'd say Marty's Martini Bar, Dorothy's Downstairs, the California Clipper, the Palmer House Hilton's lobby bar, or the Green Mill.

[machine-saint]

i think one of the fundamental problems with the word "techbro" is that it has multiple meanings, some of which contradict each other.

the original term brogrammer referred to programmers who act in a very stereotypical masculine way, as a pejorative. the word "techbro" was sometimes used as a synonym for this. this is why the word "bro" is there, because it's a comparison to frat bros. this is also the only sense mentioned on the wikipedia page. this is also the sense i see the least usage of on tumblr; it was really more of a thing back in 2012-2013 or so.

people also use it to refer to people who are pushing the latest fad; web 3.0, blockchain shit, NFTs, LLMs, whatever. this usage does not require that the person actually knows anything about programming. some of these people genuinely believe in what they're advocating for, some of them are just hopping onto the latest money-making thing. this is the y combinator set.

a third usage is to refer to people who are very into self-hosting, and "own your hardware" type stuff and don't understand that computing is a compromise and not everyone wants to spend all their effort getting stuff to work. this is the rms type. unlike the second definition, this one requires the person to have fairly deep technical knowledge. theoretically you could have someone who doesn't know a lot about computers but is real big into this kind of stuff, but in practice that never happens.

(i'm broadly sympathetic to this type; i avoid music streaming and sync all my music using open-source software, that sort of thing. the "techbro" part, in theory, comes when they look down on others for not making the same choices. of course, the line between "you're looking down on me" and "you're arrogant for simply believing that you're right" is thin.)

in particular, sense-2 and sense-3 "techbros" have very opposite beliefs! one wants to run everything "in the cloud", the other wants to run everything locally. one wants to let chatgpt run your life, the other hates the idea of something they can't audit be that important. both tend to be very "technology will save us" types, but the way they go about that is very different. one makes very sleek-looking but extremely limited UI, the other will make ultra-customizable, ultra-functional UI that's the most hideous and hard-to-use thing you've seen in your life.

and so you can see here the problem: what can we actually say about "techbros" that's meaningful, other than "techbro is when i don't like someone who likes technology"? if a word isn't used as a self-descriptor, but only as an insult, what stops it from becoming broader and broader until it loses all usefulness?

[squeezesublime]

A new Sim has entered Penny Pizazz's villa... (for @bunnithechubs)

Meet Jamison Peck, an absolute programming genius who joined the insufferable multi-million dollar Boy$ Club before turning 30. He's smarter than 95% of San Myshuno's tech elite and is not shy about making sure that fact is known. Set for life, Jamison has aspirations to expand his empire to rival that of the infamous Landgraabs and Altos, and in his eyes, there's no reason not to. Yet sadly, to no one's surprise, his ego gets in the way of some of his more "social" capabilities, often leaving colleagues and former close friends off-put by his raging bluntness and arrogance. But that doesn't stop him from being a VIP at the highest-profile parties in town and, of course, receiving a steady flow of attractive suitors. Let's see if this big-bucked, blond brogrammer has what it takes to woo, and maintain, a relationship with the illustrious Penny Pizazz...

[our-arospec-experience]

Tw I think there's a hint of aphobia somewhere down this ask

But tldr :Hello arospec gang. I found specific orientations within the aro spectrum and they are on point. I like to use multiple of them, is that normal or okay?

Lo and behold below is the unabridged version:

Anyways. I, on the most unfortunate of fates, realized I was aromantic right after I got into a romantic relationship. It's very recent, but the identity clicked with me almost instantly. The more I read and dig about it, the more I find myself thinking, wow, this is so me.

Eventually, after doing more digging I came across different orientations under the wide range of the arospectrum. And I relate with more than one of these.

The problem though is that when I did come across some sort of info graphic thingy that included the most flags in it, the comments (reddit) were kinda dismissive of these labels. Anyway some comments (and the comments are coming from aros and aces alike) are complaining about the micro labels being too specific and unnecessary. I think they're wrong because, for me, finding these specific orientations and learning how my experience isn't an isolated case is definitely a necessity. If not for these specific arospec orientations, I'd probably still think that I'm alone.

Anyways the question though, is that am I the only one who could relate to multiple of these arospec identities? Like I could specifically relate to, alloaro/aroallo, frayromantic, lithromantic. So that's three. And counting.

While I do identify as those, I still use the term aromantic as a catch-all term to explain myself to my friends (much like in a defensive fashion, because they think I'm monstrous for having limited romantic attraction). Then it dawned on me that I behaved just like the redditors who were roasting the specific aromantic orientations. So I'm rethinking my life decisions now and I guess I should, next time, use these terms even if most of my friends are proudly homophobic. Welcome to the brogrammer industry boys this place fucken sucks

Anyways sorry for the extremely looooonglonglong text thank you so much for your service

Ps the relationship that served as my aromantic awakening is a frozen dumpster fire. I literally can't do romance. Being affectionate with her under the friends label and role-playing as her favorite fictional men was way easier than when she admitted to having feelings for me instead of the fictional men. Like. Wait. That's illegal.

Of course you can use multiple microlabels!!! For example, I am aromantic, fictoromantic, and cupioromantic. It’s definitely normal and valid. microlabels are great for people who want to define how they feel more specifically, and don’t feel like the generic term quite fits them properly. I’m sorry to hear your relationship didn’t work out (unless you are happy about that, in which case, congratulations). Sometimes it’s best to ignore what other people think and just do what is right for you. remember you are valid, and no one should make you feel stupid for who you are :)

[sarasa-cat]

Gift link to the whole thing, but some key quotes highlighted below:

This association between incessant work and entrepreneurial success is pervasive in American business culture today. Jeff Bezos reports working 12 hours every day of the week in the early years of Amazon. The Apple chief executive Tim Cook is famous for sending emails at 4:30 a.m. Mr. Musk’s ostensible boss, despite his well-known fondness for TV news and social media, also insists that “no president ever worked harder than me.” These boasts, plausible or not, reveal something important about the American valorization of work, and help explain why this class of supposedly busy billionaires has come to believe they’re entitled to dominate our national life. For Mr. Musk and his associates, a herculean enthusiasm for work isn’t merely a way to get things done; it’s also a mark of innate superiority, a “superpower” that confers the right to impose their vision on the world.

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The Austrian-born economist Joseph Schumpeter, who taught at Harvard from 1932 until his death in 1950, helped popularize the idea that entrepreneurs possessed a special set of personality traits that set them apart from lesser businessmen and managers. Entrepreneurship, according to Mr. Schumpeter, smashed economic routines. That took “will and personality.” True entrepreneurs generated “gales of creative destruction,” in his famous phrase, a notion he adapted from the German economist Werner Sombart, who maintained in 1909 that entrepreneurs were “men (not women!) equipped for everything with an extraordinary vitality, from which pours forth an unusual drive to act, a passionate joy in work and an irrepressible desire for power.” They were superheroes. It didn’t take long for American business leaders to embrace this way of thinking. It enabled them to rationalize their success as the natural outgrowth of their own productivity, and to cast heavier workloads as a way of empowering employees rather than grinding them down. When Georges Doriot, a founder of one of the first major American venture capital firms, was asked in 1960 whether he planned to hire new staff members to keep up with his company’s rapid growth, he replied, “No, we will all just work later into the night.” This mind-set spread into the tech firms Mr. Doriot invested in and shaped the worldview of Silicon Valley executives. In the early 1980s, employees working under Steve Jobs in Apple’s Macintosh division made T-shirts that read “90 hours a week and loving it!”

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Now, in an era when over 70 percent of Americans worry about the availability of good jobs with good pay, the bosses atop our class pyramid correctly perceive how such jobs have become a status symbol: If the rich of the Gilded Age had conspicuous consumption, flaunting their freedom from toil, the rich of our new Gilded Age have conspicuous work. We see them working constantly while we hunt for extra shifts or struggle to string part-time jobs together, and we marvel at how special they must be.

@fereldanwench - What is missing from the article is how, in the 2010s, all of these "productivity" maximalists put on a show of being productivity gurus and sold their snake oil in the form of best seller books, overpriced seminars, and godknowswhatelse. Along with them came the bropodcasters selling maximum productivity bullshit to legions of brogrammers. Finally the normie-wealthy lifestyle ladies started selling their unrealistic 4am wake up productivity routines.

It's the american religion of Productivity (so your boss's boss's big boss can get filthy rich).

[smoqueen]

remember the article floating around from prboably a decade ago calling working at tumblr 'brogrammer culture' why are we surprised when they ban words like tgirl and nuke blogs for no reason

[fear-is-truth]

My masterlist for my posts keeps deleting the link?? When I like a post to text and go back to it after a while/after editing the post, it alters the link and makes it unavailable. Do you know why 😖

hi pooks ! erm this hasn’t happened to me personally, but i have a few *possible* ideas on what might be causing it and how you can fix it.

disclaimer: i’m no brogrammer (hell, i’m not even a bro) so this is just my super super unprofessional advice… sorry if this ain’t much help </3

why this might be happening:

1. the url changed

if you change the post’s title, tags, or url slug, the link might break because tumblr generates a new link for the edited post. btw this happens 100% if u changed the username of your blog.

2. editing the masterlist repeatedly

tumblr is a bit buggy when it comes to editing posts repeatedly, especially if you’re switching between web & mobile. links might get corrupted during these edits.

3. using shortened links

if you’re linking to posts using a short tumblr url (e.g. tumblr.com/post/12345), tumblr might alter or lose track of the post id

4. broken cache / loading issues

sometimes, the issue is just yr browser or app not properly refreshing the content. might look like the link is broken when it’s actually not.

5. tumblr’s link format changes

tumblr sometimes alters link formatting, especially if the link contains special characters or emojis. editing the post multiple times might exacerbate this issue.

6. tumblr’s bugs

let’s be fr—tumblr glitches randomly. this could just be one of its “actin’ up” moments.

how to fix it:

here are a few solutions that might help:

1. use the full post url

always use the complete link (e.g., https://yourblog.tumblr.com/post/123456789/title) rather than a shortened one.

2. avoid frequent edits

try to minimise editing yr masterlist post. if you must (understandable btw), copy the correct links beforehand and reinsert them manually after making changes.

3. backup your masterlist

save a copy of your mlist in your drafts or in a document on your phone/computer. this way, if tumblr fucks up the links, u have a backup to work from.

4. smash cache/refresh

if you’re using a mobile, u can find this in “general settings”. for browser, refresh the page.

6. use the tumblr web version

sometimes, the app can be glitchy. editing your masterlist from the web browser might fix the issue.

7. tumblr support

if the issue persists, contact tumblr support with specific examples of the broken links and details about your browser/app usage.

[the-iron-fjord]

>All those 'if else' statements

DEMARCO'S A SHITTY BROGRAMMER

[tanyao]

Wish we could see some cock from such a cutie.

@horny-brogrammer is my nsfw sideblog and i have posted pics there lol

[softfists]

Oh man the use of "deprecated" here increases my confidence that that AO3 comment was written by a brogrammer type. In software development, "deprecated" means something isn't being actively maintained or developed. For example, the authors of a package might mark it as deprecated so users know that there won't be updates or technical support available for it anymore, and to use an alternative package instead. It's a very specific and unintuitive use of the word that you only really encounter in these spaces, and that you would only assume the average person would understand if you've been insulated in those spaces for way too long.

Wow, now there's a bot going around on Ao3 telling people that the "moderators" will delete works from "deprecated" fandoms and impose bans.

Fearmongering bullshit, but it's fearmongering bullshit that seems to be taking advantage of the recent spotlight series in order to trick authors into deleting their fics.

Just. Why.

What the hell does anyone get out of making these bots.

[yibennianyaji]

In the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation, every Perl programmer had dozens of wives, all of which were discarded after the age of 23 -- every brogrammer in the world

guys I'm still mad about that party