About Hackers

<p>About Hackers Thinking about the term "hacker". Time to take it back to mean something rather down to earth, rather than a pedistal requiring years of C and a black hoodie?</p><p>What do airlines have against Erlang anyway?</p><p>There's also the mindset angle: the hacking mindset can be when exploring, versus when needing to solve a specific problem.</p><p>The discussion goes into labels one feels comfortable with, switching between different modes, and the ever present, ever hard to find dark matter developers.</p><p><br>Over time, labels can easily go bad in one way or another. But regardless of labels, we can all agree on duct tape and enthusiasm, right?</p><p><br><strong>Links</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://wiki.c2.com/?LetItCrash">Let it crash</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man">Burning man</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub">Activitypub</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_site_generator">Static site generator</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system">CMS</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy">The Unix philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model">COM</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg">FFmpeg</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi">vi</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl">Perl</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto">Ecto</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-unseen-99">Dark matter developers</a></li> </ul><p><strong>Quotes</strong></p><ul> <li>So security, very programming</li> <li>Joy and playfulness</li> <li>My mind goes off</li> <li>Creative systems thinking</li> <li>Think through as many eyes as possible</li> <li>Many things are intended as complete packages</li> <li>Handing you the fun bits</li> <li>Things that provide you the entire world</li> <li>Not very together-bashable</li