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I'm shocked that there's an entire mini industry of sorts of pictures of younger woman posing in front of Javascript code. Not just a casual picture but with wh

I'm shocked that there's an entire mini industry of sorts of pictures of younger woman posing in front of Javascript code. Not just a casual picture but with what looks like a carefully composed photograph.

heartbreak 9y ago
Are you referring to more than just the author's Instagram photos in her post?
- jonheller 9y ago
  Yes. I mean, I still think it's kind of odd to have an entire Instagram feed of just pictures of yourself in front of code. But somehow Instagram's algorithm decided to show me tons of these types of pictures in the "Explore" tab. A huge amount were, like another commenter mentioned, girls in yoga pants or short shorts posing with Sublime Text in the background. And they're hugely popular. In no way do I think the original poster's feed is like this. She seems genuinely interested in coding. It just led me into this entire apparent subculture of this type of thing.
  - bookmarkacc 9y ago
    Your explore page is based on accounts you interact with most. So those posts are a reflection of what you are saving, liking, viewing
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Lon7 9y ago
I'm not at all surprised that there are women who code and want to share that with others. I'm thrilled that there is more and more of this type of stuff on Instagram. This is how we reach audiences we normally wouldn't.
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Cthulhu_ 9y ago
What I'm shocked at is that she's got two displays there but chooses to write code on the tiny screen in front of her. I don't get people that work on laptops.
- HuggableSquare 9y ago
  At work I have two external monitors attached to my 13" MBP, and I almost exclusively use the laptop screen. I also use the trackpad and keyboard attached to the laptop, which is probably the reason I use the laptop's screen so much more than the others. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
- gaius 9y ago
  It's an impressive hardware setup for a teenager, certainly, but someone who can jaunt overseas for a random course can surely afford it.
- actuallyalys 9y ago
  I use my laptop's display as a third monitor. My guess is that's what she's doing.
ashark 9y ago
If you think that's surprising, you should see how some people use Twitch's "watch a person play a video game" streaming service. Though maybe don't look it up at work.
- heartbreak 9y ago
  That's a completely uncalled-for comparison, and it has no place here.
  - ashark 9y ago
    [A bunch of quite tame stuff that I nonetheless regret posting due to the heat surrounding anything remotely near this entire subject area] [EDIT] You know what? I'm just gonna leave all this to retrospectives from sociologists and media studies folks in a decade or two. Any discussion about this whole slice of online life is always too much of the usual Internet misunderstanding-one-another, but with the knives out. There's a ton of really interesting stuff going on around this topic, but it's just not worth trying to discuss, no matter how much good faith is brought to the table. Suffice it to say that it doesn't look like anyone in this sub-thread has been trying to associate the OP with anything unseemly, that certainly wasn't what I was trying to do (god, why on earth would I want to?) and on re-reading my post in context it also doesn't appear to be what I did do. I'm bowing out.

heartbreak 9y ago

Are you referring to more than just the author's Instagram photos in her post?

jonheller 9y ago
Yes. I mean, I still think it's kind of odd to have an entire Instagram feed of just pictures of yourself in front of code. But somehow Instagram's algorithm decided to show me tons of these types of pictures in the "Explore" tab. A huge amount were, like another commenter mentioned, girls in yoga pants or short shorts posing with Sublime Text in the background. And they're hugely popular. In no way do I think the original poster's feed is like this. She seems genuinely interested in coding. It just led me into this entire apparent subculture of this type of thing.
- bookmarkacc 9y ago
  Your explore page is based on accounts you interact with most. So those posts are a reflection of what you are saving, liking, viewing
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Lon7 9y ago

I'm not at all surprised that there are women who code and want to share that with others. I'm thrilled that there is more and more of this type of stuff on Instagram. This is how we reach audiences we normally wouldn't.

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Cthulhu_ 9y ago

What I'm shocked at is that she's got two displays there but chooses to write code on the tiny screen in front of her. I don't get people that work on laptops.

HuggableSquare 9y ago
At work I have two external monitors attached to my 13" MBP, and I almost exclusively use the laptop screen. I also use the trackpad and keyboard attached to the laptop, which is probably the reason I use the laptop's screen so much more than the others. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
gaius 9y ago
It's an impressive hardware setup for a teenager, certainly, but someone who can jaunt overseas for a random course can surely afford it.
actuallyalys 9y ago
I use my laptop's display as a third monitor. My guess is that's what she's doing.

ashark 9y ago

If you think that's surprising, you should see how some people use Twitch's "watch a person play a video game" streaming service. Though maybe don't look it up at work.

heartbreak 9y ago
That's a completely uncalled-for comparison, and it has no place here.
- ashark 9y ago
  [A bunch of quite tame stuff that I nonetheless regret posting due to the heat surrounding anything remotely near this entire subject area] [EDIT] You know what? I'm just gonna leave all this to retrospectives from sociologists and media studies folks in a decade or two. Any discussion about this whole slice of online life is always too much of the usual Internet misunderstanding-one-another, but with the knives out. There's a ton of really interesting stuff going on around this topic, but it's just not worth trying to discuss, no matter how much good faith is brought to the table. Suffice it to say that it doesn't look like anyone in this sub-thread has been trying to associate the OP with anything unseemly, that certainly wasn't what I was trying to do (god, why on earth would I want to?) and on re-reading my post in context it also doesn't appear to be what I did do. I'm bowing out.