read an article the other day about how infra/sysadmin/devops is devalued because it's, quintessentially, women's work (reproductive labour rather than productive; the software equivalent of "homemaking" and "cleaning up" and "carework" etc.; all about creating a space and keeping it going smooth and stable for everyone).

the same article also described software culture as a hero culture (innovate great things for glory, consequences bet damned), contrasting that with engineering culture (as in actual engineers who build physical structures, not "software engineering") as a piety culture, like monks anonymously seeking salvation from the taint of sin.

still thinking about those similes