You have just slightly touched on how I feel looking at this post. Equality in tech is something I think it's very important, to the point that I never stop whining about it, in fact. But holy hell it feels like they're too busy with our heads up our own asses to even shut up and write code. Too busy talking about the title "engineer", writing "everything you know is wrong, and I know because I'm a 30 y/o CEO of some tech-company" garbage articles. It's like if a bunch of writers sitting around debating moleskins to spiral-bounds before declaring who a "real writer" is. It's its own clique, I can't create intricate words but fuck I really really really hate it. Basically it doesn't matter who you are - if you're an "engineer", you're also, probably, an asshole.
Yes. Yes yes yes yes. That's exactly how I feel how. There are some great people in that industry, but the culture that is the Silicon Valley, to me, is insulating and way too self-congratulatory and out of touch with reality. Few things are more irritating to me than somebody who buys into that culture going on about the moral righteousness of whatever they're working on and spewing out nonsense instead of doing actual work. I realize that the show Silicon Valley is very satirical, but I still dislike it for the reasons above.
Most of the bloggers aren't the people out there writing code. It's a huge part of my frustration with reporting on women in tech. There's very few of us out there talking about ourselves, instead most people speak for us. I call myself a software engineer because that's the word for what I do. If there's a better word, I would use that. I don't really care too much about the title TBH.
The people who are writing code aren't the people writing most of the blog posts. There are people with both chops and a blog (Mark Dominus is great), but they only post when they have something worth saying. Most bloggers are has-beens, hucksters or wanna-bes.But holy hell it feels like they're too busy with our heads up our own asses to even shut up and write code.