“ I imagine a lot of it comes from the fact that there are so many legions of boring, undeveloped office workers (who nevertheless 15 years ago imagined themselves to be an intellectual, or at least have some talent or flair beyond accounts management), with a hard-on since childhood for technology and no actual interests, who cling desperately to the programming class they took in highschool, or maybe never took at all. Now there is an entire industry devoted to doling out the kind of ‘handy time-savers’ heretofore relegated to the back pages of Reader’s Digest, and these poor saps get to pretend that they are really ‘hacks’. They’re not ‘hacks’. They’re tupperware party fodder.
