Feminist Hacker Barbie

Help make Computer Engineer Barbie better!

Barbie's new book tells girls they need boys to code for them.

Help Barbie be the competent, independent, bad-ass engineer that she wants to be.

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User-Submitted Improvements

"I've managed to code a hair shader that is able to retroactively query the render environment and determine the level of detail suitable for a person that is seated from 2km out to 2 nanometers. Blinking results in a barking noise made from alternating the power attenuation of the modified class 2 laser of the cd player. Don't worry the EN 207 requirements were never breached in any way." Barbie tries to revert those changes she pushed to production before Skipper notices. "git pull this, git merge that, something something merge conflict, upstream whateverthefuck...what the crap happened to good old FTP?" she mutters to herself. Hurry up, Barbie! We're going to be late to PyLadies! Barbie continues working, but suddenly her laptop switches off. "Oh no! I didn't commit my changes!" says Barbie. "Looks like you've learnt your lesson, big sister," says Skipper. "Remember to make regular commits often on a separate branch", she advises. "Let's see what you have accomplished so far, Skipper", says Barbie and turns towards the computer screen. "No!!", Skipper screams and grabs her computer away from Barbie "I don't want you to see the awful fucking mess-of-a-code, it's too embarrassing. Please, all you need to know is that it works" Barbie worked hard to implement Steven and Brian's gameplay designs. Although she enjoys writing the code to bring these designs to life, she also respects the knowledge of user experience that designers like Brian can bring to the table. Leave my printer alone Brian. Barbie's brows knit in concentration as she hammered out code, trying her best to ignore the two dudebro idiots gawking at her from behind the monitors. "These little boys," she thought. "Christ, I wish I could just write an app that would send them back to playing Call of Shoot You In The Face or whatever the hell derivative shooter they're drooling over now." She swore that it was something she would ultimately do. Hack for the world you want, Barbie, she reminded herself. Not the one you have. "My code is taking time to compile even though I have an excellent build system! What can I do?" Barbie asks, laughing. "I will at least treat myself with some healthy food while I wait." "This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop me, but you can't stop us all." "With my computer being all broken, I have to resort to looking at pictures of animals on physical pieces of paper :(. I miss imgur." "This command-line tool I wrote should help you trace any bugs you encounter while interfacing with the architecture I designed. It's easy enough that even a software engineer should be able to figure it out." "This darn code!" exclaimed Barbie. "What's wrong, sis?" asked Skipper as she whipped up her morning smoothie. "I'm reviewing code that Brian sent in, and while I can see where he's going, it's just not executed properly!" Barbie sighed. "There's bugs everywhere. It's not too big of a worry, but it might push back our deliverable for this week." "I'm sure you can fix it, Barbie! You're a real whiz! You can do anything!!" exclaimed the younger sister. "I've implemented that binary counting algorithm as a circuit using this pen that outputs metal fluid for quick connections and truly fast prototyping." "Your robot puppy is so sweet," says Skipper. "Can I play your game?" "Of course, I am just preparing the user stories for a proof of concept, have patience," Barbie says, laughing, "I'll need to learn some C# though to use Unity to turn it into a full game, but I like learning new languages"
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