I make and fettle software. Mostly bioinformatics/genomics in practice, but not especially wedded to that field. Have never been especially comfortable with t

I make and fettle software. Mostly bioinformatics/genomics in practice, but not especially wedded to that field. Have never been especially comfortable with the "software engineer" label, although it seems to be what a lot of people go by these days. How about "hacker"?