I learned computer programming on punch cards when I was 6 … and at every engineer job interview the focus of the interview was the interviewers’ slack-jawed wonderment that I was “interested in computers”.

But I shouldn’t have to say that, because to a lot of people right now, being able to modify the html in a Typepad template makes you a studly geek. It doesn’t help to mystify things even more and make a caste system of knowledge and counter-hipness to make a bunch of people (women) feel ignorant and unwelcome in tech conversations.

Repeat.