Umarell
Strictly speaking, this is not a tech blog. Nor am I a developer in either the professional or even the hobbyist sense. I do, however, love using technology and I am fascinated by reading how software, hardware, systems and everything else that comes with them are made and the impact they can have on people's lives.
This means I end up reading countless tech blogs. At least 75% of the concepts and language discussed are lost on me. But I get to watch on as someone builds a solution to a problem, tinkers with some code or breaks the entire thing down and starts again.
I guess this means I am the digital equivalent of the umarell — the popular term given to elderly Italian men who spend their free time watching over construction and building sites while offering unsolicited opinions to the workers. I could spend all day perusing tech blogs, watching on as someone imminently more qualified and clever creates something I could only wish I could do.
I like to think I don't ever offer up unsolicited (and wholly unqualified) opinions — at least not directly. I have been known to grumble to myself as to why it can't be that a particular piece of tech can't function exactly how I want it to (readers may be unsurprised to learn that the reason almost always lies in the fact I have skimmed over some important part of the documentation).