"Coder" stock photos

Chris Maunder

Why does every stock photo for "coder" or anything related to software development always feature HTML, Javascript, or minified CSS as the screenshot the exemplifies hard core coding. (although I guess I know the answer: designers) I wanna see some BASIC in those screenshots. Or Scratch.

cheers Chris Maunder

Richard Andrew x64

Maybe it's the easiest code to "fake." They wouldn't want to show any real intellectual property.

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OriginalGriff

Because if you used "real code" you'd probably want "real coders" as well, and ... some of them don't photograph well. :~

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PIEBALDconsult

I'll get right on it... PIEBALD boots up his MicroVAX...

Marc Clifton

Well, if you're looking for "coder" images then I would suggest searching for "coder monkey" :laugh:

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englebart

Same with the hackers in movies. Crack the password! One panel/tab on the monitor has the title “Source Code”

Richard Deeming

It's not all HTML: Source Code in TV and Films[^]

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OriginalGriff

What? Are we not supposed to put that on the login page? Next you'll be telling me to remove the "Inject SQL" button ...

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Lost User

I was always fond of 2 or 3 gears.

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ZevSpitz

APL?

honey the codewitch

I find that how well I photograph is inversely proportional to how much code I am writing at the time.

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Gary Wheeler

Ooooh... line printer ASCII art!

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Cpichols

I suppose they could use the Arduino sample code set.

Myron Dombrowski

That, unironically, was my jam in the early 90s.

Myron Dombrowski

There was a span of a good 15 years or so where it seemed like almost every time I saw a code snippet in marketing materials it was rendered in the Chicago typeface. Chicago, for the young’uns, is the original font used for system text like buttons and menus on the Mac. Aside from being not even close to monospace, it was designed *specifically* to be used as title text on low-res, 1-bit displays. Nobody ever used it for code without first uttering the sentence, “hey, this’ll be funny.” But it sort of entered the zeitgeist as “generic techie font” for a long while.

Kirk 10389821

Angelina Jolie was THE Female Hacker in the movie Hackers! (And the boy went on to play Holmes in the TV Series with a totally different look/feel) Do they count? (As real coders/hackers?)

matblue25

The problem with that is that APL doesn't look like code. Looks more like astrology or some other sort of sorcery.

User 14060113

"Coding" nowadays has become mostly web or mobile. As web has been around longer than mobile, it looks more familiar to most non-tech people.