How to survive family gatherings and birthday parties as a Techie

I understand where you are coming from, interacting with people that are not 'from our industry'. What are you supposed to talk about, if not about open source, rubies and the shittyness of JavaScript? Well...

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1. How to survive family gatherings and birthday parties as a Techie
2. What are you supposed to talk about, if not about open source, rubies and the shittyness of JavaScript?
5. Hello, my name is Floor and [I’m dating a developer]
7. I like real time. It’s so fast.
8. I would like to see the kids of this shit. (the children of an element)
9. I’m not a VCS. (his answer to ‘you silly git’)
10. I consider my laptop both secure and compromised. It’s like Schrödingers Katze.
11. I’m a binary shopper. It’s either a ‘yes’ or I hate it.
12. There’s always something to google on the internet.
13. I get my strong arms from typing on a Linux keyboard.
14. So I added you to this git repository to manage things around the house, with grocery lists and stuff. It’s easier than using Google Docs.
15. Cut the cr.. lingo
16. Websites vs. web applications
17. We’re bootstrapping
18. I’m vc-ing the shit out of this application
19. Back-end
20. Open Source
21. Cyber security
22. What’s up with job titles nowadays?
23. senior
24. rockstar
25. ninja
26. guru
27. wizard
28. ... and that’s coming from a ‘developer evangelist’
29. I can’t reproduce this, therefor there is no bug.
30. Who’s gonna tell the devs?
31. What ... thinks I do
32. what my mom thinks I do
34. what my friends think I do
36. what I think I do
38. How to survive...
39. Presents.
41. Ermagherd! Another programmer!
42. Turn off your devices.
43. TDI
44. Thank you.