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hey wait the word “programmer” doesn't just mean software dev, it also can refer to someone who arranges or composes MIDI data… yet another reason to call myself a programmer :3

i'd generally rather say artist or musician but maybe i can lean into this in a fun way

@hikari if I’m going to make music I think I’d rather be a programmer than a musician

(but they’re both still artists)

@hikari “you have technicians here, making noise. they’re still artists! but nobody is a musician because nobody is playing the guitar”

that’s how that quote goes, right

@demize …wow it might have been an entire decade since i last heard that skrillex song

anyway yeah musician meaning someone who can play an instrument is also a nuance that i feel from that word, hmm

@demize i regret to inform you the actual quote is “they're not artists” though, but you may have deliberately misquoted them :3

@hikari maybe :3

@hikari I could play the guitar way better 15 years ago. did I used to be an artist but I’m not anymore