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by zwieback 2046 days ago
Yeah, as an engineer it's hard for me to think of anything that doesn't have motors or sensors or at least PCBs as "tech". But I've also been a programmer for 30 years so I can appreciate pure SW projects that are hidden from the end-user as technical achievements. So at first things like AirBnB or travel search engines don't seem very techy but once these apps or websites are past their initial clunky releases there's a lot of hard work in the background that makes for a pleasant user experience.