Re: [TML] How many people here are "coders"?
greg nokes 21 Jul 2025 15:38 UTC
> **Q:** How many people on the list are "coders" or programmers?
I can code* if I need to, but I’ve never had a 9-5 coding job. I’ve always been a systems level person, who graduated into systems architecture and then cloud architecture.
* How I code, a transcript:
Me “I need to make a choice depending on contents of a variable… yeah… a case statement will do the trick...” (sounds of furious googling about how a case statement is formatted in language du jour) 😂
>
> I ask after reading Charles McKnight's great article on Obsidian in the Jul/Aug issue of
> Freelance Traveller. If you haven't read it, Obsidian is a note taking system that a GM or
> player would find useful in a game setting, say to record any kind of information that a
> they needed to remember between gaming sessions. I also found this interesting because I
> spent my working years as a "backend" developer. So, the Obsidian wiki that Charles is
> talking about uses similar components to a home-grown wiki that I created to support my own
> campaign if I ever get back to running it.
>
> Chris
>
> __o "All I was trying to do was get home from work."
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> Christopher Sean Hilton [chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com]
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