Brogramers is a term that I’ve only come across in the last few weeks, it’s a term that describes a programmer that is not a nerd (like 98.8992% of them are) but more like an American frat house party hungry individual.

So what is a Brogrammer?  Well Gizmodo has written a pretty good piece on brogrammers, mostly from the perspective of someone who's a little annoyed at them:

“The underlying terror is that the same arseholes who were arseholes in Uni are now arseholes in the tech sector. Instead of smart, passionate, creative coders, you have the brogrammer: A sleaze in a popped collar who will slap your arse if you walk by and call you a fag from across the quad office. He moves in packs with other brogrammers. He rips shots of Jack Daniels at his computer. He will try to fight you. He is, in the terrified words of Gina Trapani, turning the office into a den “of frat house fun.” Fun? No. And it gets worse! “Brogrammer culture celebrates frat house values, youth over experience and men over women.”

Okay so more then a little annoyed, very annoyed.  i am not sure if brogrammers, however, are just an American phenomena, that being similar to “frat’ boys.  We of course have our equivalents, at uni, the work place and in bars.  But could we see a bogan programmer?  A bogrammer?

But maybe brogrammers have missed the boat after al these days being cool is pretty much all about being as uncool as you can right?  Huge 70s glasses, flannelette shirts buttoned up the top, shoes that grandma would (or probably did) wear? 

The “bro” isn't cool anymore.  It’s the dawn of the hipster and as far as I know a hipster resembles a better looking nerd, that knows looking like they do is bad.  So maybe the humble programmer could now call themselves the hipgrammer and not have to change a thing about themselves, just change their attitude.

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