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Nigel Small

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Programmer with a small grey beard. Leader of multilingual software engineering teams.

I do #Python, #Java, #Rust, #JavaScript, #C, #PHP, or whatever else. Often found hanging around sockets, protocols, databases, and cups of tea.

Long-time #Linux user (esp #LinuxMint). Part-time #OpenSource author. Far too infrequent blogger. Overthinker.

#Canterbury, #UK

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Joined August 25, 2021
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Nigel Small @technige@fosstodon.org · Jul 20, 2026
Nigel Small
@technige@fosstodon.org

Programmer with a small grey beard. Leader of multilingual software engineering teams. I do #Python, #Java, #Rust, #JavaScript, #C, #PHP, or whatever else. Often found hanging around sockets, protocols, databases, and cups of tea. Long-time #Linux user (esp #LinuxMint). Part-time #OpenSource author. Far too infrequent blogger. Overthinker. #Canterbury, #UK

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@darthvader42@sueden.social Like carbon offsetting?
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Nigel Small @technige@fosstodon.org · Jul 20, 2026
Nigel Small
@technige@fosstodon.org

Programmer with a small grey beard. Leader of multilingual software engineering teams. I do #Python, #Java, #Rust, #JavaScript, #C, #PHP, or whatever else. Often found hanging around sockets, protocols, databases, and cups of tea. Long-time #Linux user (esp #LinuxMint). Part-time #OpenSource author. Far too infrequent blogger. Overthinker. #Canterbury, #UK

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There's a possible future where an engineering manager can ask "I see you spent $10,000 on #AI last month - what return is that giving us?"
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Nigel Small @technige@fosstodon.org · May 06, 2026
Nigel Small
@technige@fosstodon.org

Programmer with a small grey beard. Leader of multilingual software engineering teams. I do #Python, #Java, #Rust, #JavaScript, #C, #PHP, or whatever else. Often found hanging around sockets, protocols, databases, and cups of tea. Long-time #Linux user (esp #LinuxMint). Part-time #OpenSource author. Far too infrequent blogger. Overthinker. #Canterbury, #UK

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@FenTiger I'm laughing but I know you're right.
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Nigel Small @technige@fosstodon.org · May 06, 2026
Nigel Small
@technige@fosstodon.org

Programmer with a small grey beard. Leader of multilingual software engineering teams. I do #Python, #Java, #Rust, #JavaScript, #C, #PHP, or whatever else. Often found hanging around sockets, protocols, databases, and cups of tea. Long-time #Linux user (esp #LinuxMint). Part-time #OpenSource author. Far too infrequent blogger. Overthinker. #Canterbury, #UK

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They'd have got away with it, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
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Nigel Small @technige@fosstodon.org · Mar 06, 2026
Nigel Small
@technige@fosstodon.org

Programmer with a small grey beard. Leader of multilingual software engineering teams. I do #Python, #Java, #Rust, #JavaScript, #C, #PHP, or whatever else. Often found hanging around sockets, protocols, databases, and cups of tea. Long-time #Linux user (esp #LinuxMint). Part-time #OpenSource author. Far too infrequent blogger. Overthinker. #Canterbury, #UK

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For me, programming began as a hobby. Then I was fortunate enough to be able to turn that into a job. Now, that job is vanishing rapidly, so it needs to become just a hobby again.

Industry has convinced itself that the age of the human developer is over. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But there are becoming fewer and fewer workplaces that want to employ programmers. They want #AI herders instead.

So programming becomes just a hobby again. A sanctuary away from assisted-coding madness.

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