Hey dudes,
It’s time to state the obvious: you’re a bro. Which means that, if you write software, you’re a brogrammer. It really is that simple. The following stereotypes are good for a little humor, but you can ignore them just as easily. The original is linked, and my snarky comments are in square brackets.
1. Brogrammers focus on the hippest possible web development technologies: Ruby on Rails, Scala, Node.js, SASS, HAML and CSS3 are all acceptable. [A good way to get around actually being productive, IMO. You can just call this ‘research.’]
2. Exercise: Usually in the form of running or pull-ups. The latter is usually done between bouts of coding…
[When else are you going to exercise, if not “between coding times?” Think about it, dude.]
3. Caffeine: Lots of it, all day.
[This I do!]
4. “I don’t often test my code, but when I do it I prefer to do it in production:” Cowboy up and ship code to the live site. [Hey, it’s not like I can’t take the site “down for maintenance” to do a quick test.]
5. Dubstep: an absolute must. Nothing puts you in the dev zone quite like a little Skrillex. [Skrillex works okay with certain drugs, but coding? To each his own.]
6. Continuous deployment: pushing code on every single commit.
[I push it like Salt n Pepa.]
7. Shirts optional. . . [Depends on the weather.]
8. Standing desks: you think you can reach full bro-tential by sitting down? Get out of here.
[Dude, I can reach my full bro-tential just by closing my eyes and thinking something pornographic. Doesn’t even matter whether I’m sitting or standing.]
9. Steak & Eggs: every good brogrammer starts his or her day off with a little brotein.
[Jeah! I’m a total bro-tein junkie!]
10. Beer o’clock is any time after noon: However, if an all-nighter is pulled, Beer o’clock is whenever. [My problem is that I can’t drink beer unless I’m either alone or with somebody.]
Later,
-The Blog Dude
