I think the interesting bit isn't the jargon, it's the parallel but separate paths of computer use. Changing an car's air filter is obviously different from dr

I think the interesting bit isn't the jargon, it's the parallel but separate paths of computer use. Changing an car's air filter is obviously different from driving. Flipping a circuit breaker is like flipping a switch, just for the whole house, and also it happens automatically if you anger the switch by plugging too much stuff in or dropping the toaster in the sink. Both of them make sense intuitively. Changing a .md file seems like it should be the same thing as changing a .docx or .odt file, since they're all different kinds of formatted text, but for some reason you need an entirely different toolchain. My resume needs to be compiled using wkhtmltopdf, pandoc, and make. It's deployed using Dokku, which wraps Docker, and the Heroku static site buildpack, which wraps nginx. It's kind of weird that a non-programmer doing the same thing would use a completely different set of DIY tools. It seems like an auto mechanic uses roughly the same set of tools as everyone else, just better versions of them and with greater skill.