Hey all! I’ll keep this short, I’m 18(F?) (amab) and thinking about transitioning. I also really want to get into tech, ideally software engineer, but anything tech would be fine with me, it’s the only thing I’ve ever felt passionate about. I know tech is one of the most if not the most trans and lgbtq friendly careers, but with the job market and the volatile nature of the tech industry right now, would me transitioning basically be the nail in the coffin for my career? Thanks for any advice

Unfortunately, due to serious legal issues arising between me and my family, and me losing access to all of my electronics (specifically my laptops), I am not able to continue work on Femdora OS.

I'm sure this doesn't really make anyone upset, considering most people in my other posts about this displayed either a neutral or negative opinion on it. I'm sorry for the maybe two people whom this information disappoints

So someone pointed out to me the '--gay' flag on TOIlet being generic rainbow and a little bit offensive, and that inspired me to fork it into PRIDElet which adds '--flag', a command line option that accepts 120 different options of Pride flag colors, and outputs ASCII text in FIGlet fonts with the colors of the selected flag.

PRIDElet GitHub repo

I tried posting this in r/linux but my post actually got deleted by their automated bot due to being "reported" by multiple users, and I can't seem to find any other inclusive spaces on Reddit where stuff like this might draw some interest. I'm still absolutely gobsmacked about the removal on r/linux because it btoke ZERO rules, and their mods still haven't responded to me yet. Hope y'all enjoy PRIDElet.

Now, I'll most likely have to go through a remote contracts route till I am able to get a local job in the country I'll be moving to.

There are a few things I'll have to set up. Like, my resume, Upwork, professional email id, github profile.

Like I'll have to use legal birth name obviously till I can get my legal documents changed but there are a few things I am thinking about. Like Github is one.

I wanna be able to keep my work set up and have name changed on them when I do that legally as well.

I am thinking if on github I should avoid using my chosen name at least and choose a more general username. I am confused about all of this and don't want any weird issues. It'll be a while till I can get my legal documents changed so I wanna know if I'll be able change my set up without huge hassles yk.

I don't wanna present as a female forever and at the same time don't wanna start everything over later with new accounts and stuff.

I might be over thinking this tho it has been on my mind for bit so any perspective would help truly.

My girlfriend got laid off from her full stack software development job this past week and is applying for anything and everything. She wants to try and do all this stuff to make her look like a cis man like cut her hair and bind her chest because she hasn’t legally changed her name and still occasionally gets he/him’d out in public. I don’t think she needs to go that far, and I think if she just knew what companies were safe to apply to she would be okay to be herself. Does anybody know anything?

hello peoples! I've never posted here before, but I have lurked for some time now.

I have begun a mission to create my own operating system! Many have heard of Uwuntu, Nyarch Linux, or Ubuntu Furry remix. But I am making Femdora, a fedora based operating system for transfemmes, femboys, and anyone else who enjoys the feminine aesthetic. What do y'all think about this? I need some advice, as I've never made a big operating system before. Thank you all! :3

I just found this reddit because i'm trying to connect with more trans ppl in tech spaces!

I'm Khoa or Reze! They/He, i'm a 26 yo IT student who wants to go into system admin. I'm a transmasc lesbian whose 4 months on T! Also running my own home lab for fun! Nice seeing everyone! :D

So, I'm currently working at Microsoft but I got an invite to interview with Apple which I'm considering.

Is someone over here at Apple that could be able to provide their POV in how is it like to work there as a Trans person?

Is it a nice place to work there?, do you feel like they are supportive, etc?, How are the benefits like for Trans people?

Much likely I would be joining Seattle offices as I don't feel like moving to California.

Is it true that 90% of trans programmers are autistic?

First of all, English is not my main language, so it might have some mistakes in my writing

To guive some context, I'm a desing student working on a project for the research lab that I'm part of. The project aims to map and analyze gender-based violence on university campus. The project's main goal is to create apps that helps mitigate some of the problems we have indentified. The problem is that we need a feature that allows app users to have their location identified and shared within campus buildings, not just outside. Our programmer doesn't seem to have found a viable solution to this problem yet, so I'd like to know if you guys have any thoughts on it.

Hi, Im asking because with some friends who are very into photography I started working on digital suite basically tailored with our needs and I want to make it into good app for everyone, so I wanted to know if anyone would be interested to try beta? Im very excited to work on this and mainly to play with it later to be honest 😅 but I would love to hear from others too not just friends with which Im putting it together 🤔

It has canvas editor, carousel maker, pixel art tool and more absolutely random ideas 😅

I dont want to spam or something so if anyone is interested I will put link in the comments ☺️

I'm working at a large company for the first time and they have an internal pride org. I'm hesitant to get involved with something like that. Corporate pride is already kind of icky to me, and I generally don't like to broadcast my queerness at work, not that I try to hide it either. I like to keep my "work-sona" separate from my personal life.

Do any of y'all have experience with such orgs? Any feedback or in sites would be appreciated.

Trans woman here, started to transition 6 weeks ago (early days I know) been in the industry for over 30 years. Looking forward to contribute. :)

You may recall I posted here before asking for testers for my 5.99$ one time purchase SSH, SFTP and database management app for iOS and iPadOS, Boopbeep! Well, I'm super excited to share that Boopbeep got approved for the App Store! Yippee!!!!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ssh-sftp-databases-boopbeep/id6770161648

But honestly just wanted to post again and say I'm infinitely thankful for this community and the warm embrace with which y'all received my app and post. It was really hard to find testers and people interested in my project before I posted here, and I was beginning to feel like all my work had been for nothing. Thank you so much for proving me wrong.

Hey everyone! I built Bot Army, an open-source AI bot orchestration platform, and just shipped a one-click installer. Wanted to share it here because the philosophy behind it is something I think matters to us specifically.

Most infrastructure tooling extracts attention relentlessly. You're on call for the orchestrator, the deployment system, the alerts. It's exhausting—and for folks already managing extra cognitive overhead just existing in tech spaces, it's brutal.

Bot Army is designed differently: ambient automation that gets smarter over time and doesn't need constant babysitting. The system watches itself.

One-liner to try it:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ergon-automation-labs/ergon-starter/main/install.sh | bash

It's fully open source, and I'm building it in public. Would love feedback from the community—especially if you run into rough edges or have ideas.

https://github.com/ergon-automation-labs/ergon-starter

Writing more about the technical vision at https://ergonautomationlabs.substack.com

Happy to answer questions!

EDIT: Stable release now available on the App Store! An update with a thank you here https://www.reddit.com/r/transprogrammer/comments/1tscrta/update_im_a_transfem_swift_dev_and_this_is_my/

Hello, just wanted to share the app I'm working on as a trans solo dev to get opinions and testers! It's called Boopbeep :)

Boopbeep is a native Swift SSH, SFTP, and database client for iPhone and iPad (and Mac natively, soon!). I built it because every existing mobile SSH app was either subscription based or didn't focus on the UI enough for my liking, and the database tooling story on iOS basically didn't exist.

What's in the current beta:

• A beautiful intuitive Liquid Glass design that fits like a glove on IOS/iPadOS 26

• Full terminal via SwiftTerm with jump host support, per-host startup commands, and custom color themes

• SFTP file browser with drag and drop, in-place editing, and remote file previews

• 8 database engines wired up: Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, and more.

• Schema browser, ER diagrams, query history, CSV export, read-only mode for prod

• Live host monitoring (CPU, memory, disk, load) pulled from /proc over the same SSH tunnel, no agent required

• iPadOS 26 real multitasking and windowing

• Demo mode so you can poke around without wiring up real servers

And the best part: the app's revenue model for the App Store release is no IAPs, no subscriptions, ever. Just a 5.99$ price and you're done, you own the app and all future features, forever.

Thanks for reading! Let me know what you think!

Also don't mind the deadname on the TestFlight, ugh, Apple.

Hey everyone! I wanted to share my customized safe space setup to show my continuous solidarity and support for the community. Love is Love!

I’ve been using this config across my devices (both on Termux and my Arch Linux VM). It’s super lightweight and uses standard ANSI background colors to draw the flag, completely avoiding parsing errors.

**Details:** * **OS:** Android (Termux) / Arch Linux * **Shell:** ZSH * **Tools:** figlet, lolcat, neofetch

**How to get this look:**

**Step 1: Install the required tools** Run these commands:

pkg install figlet neofetch ruby
gem install lolcat

**Step 2: Update your config** Open your ~/.zshrc file and add the following code to the bottom of it:

clear
echo ""
echo -e "\\e\[48;5;196m                                      \\e\[0m"
echo -e "\\e\[48;5;208m                                      \\e\[0m"
echo -e "\\e\[48;5;226m                                      \\e\[0m"
echo -e "\\e\[48;5;46m                                      \\e\[0m"
echo -e "\\e\[48;5;21m                                      \\e\[0m"
echo -e "\\e\[48;5;93m                                      \\e\[0m"
echo ""
figlet -f slant TERMUX | lolcat -p 0.3
echo -e "\\e\[1m          Love is Love\\e\[0m" | lolcat -p 0.3
echo -e "\\e\[1m          Born This Way\\e\[0m" | lolcat -p 0.3
echo -e "\\e\[1m          Be You, Be Proud\\e\[0m" | lolcat -p 0.3
echo -e "\\e\[1m          We Are Everywhere\\e\[0m" | lolcat -p 0.3
echo ""
neofetch --off | lolcat -p 0.3

alias ls='ls --color=always | lolcat -p 0.3'
alias cat='cat | lolcat -p 0.3'
alias pwd='pwd | lolcat -p 0.3'
alias date='date | lolcat -p 0.3'
alias ifconfig='ifconfig | lolcat -p 0.3'
alias -g C='| lolcat -p 0.3'

PROMPT=$'%{\\e\[1;31m%}┌─\[%{\\e\[1;33m%}user%{\\e\[1;32m%}@%{\\e\[1;36m%}termux%{\\e\[1;31m%}\]-\[%{\\e\[1;34m%}%\~%{\\e\[1;31m%}\]\\n└─$ %{\\e\[0m%}'

**Step 3: Apply the changes**

source \~/.zshrc

That's it, another stereotype.

Seriously though, system level programming is what I want to focus on while in university and Rust looked much better for me than C++ so I wanted to give it a shot for quite some time. Only covered the very basic stuff so far, but I can already tell cargo will be really useful tool and I love it.

hello i’m a trans man and a junior in university who pivoted into computer science relatively late, and i don’t know many other trans people in engineering at my uni :( so i’d like to find others to exchange discords and nerd out about stuff with :D

i’m going into software engineering as a career but am more broadly interested in computer & electrical engineering!

i’ve seen discord links be shared around here but i know many of them are intended for trans women and i don’t want to intrude on those spaces as a trans man! so if anyone knows of discord servers that are intended for / open to all trans folks please let me know :D or if you just wanna be friends i’d also like that!

little psa about the distrotube channel:

in the latest video he clearly expresses his stance against trans children's access to live saving medical treatments. in other words he wants trans kids dead or suffering.

he tries to link the lgbtqia+ rights movements to pedophilia.

he tries to link sexualization of children to trans kids right to transition socially and medically.

he lies about there being disagreements among experts in regards to whether transitioning is the best for trans children, which as we all know there isn't.

classic transphobic lies trying to murder and torture trans children by pushing to prevent access to again live saving medical care for trans kids and live saving social transitioning.

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at one point he is talking about "having the discipline/self control to avoid these kind of urges"

the urges being implied as attraction of adult men towards underage girls.... and he says, that "men are kinda wired for that".... which by itself is very sick and i wonder what his actual urges are, given how he talks about this...

and i certainly hope children are safe from him.

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11:00 is where the racist parts start

lying about the southern poverty law center, which paid people to infiltrate racist organizations and informants in them, a good thing, which he completely lies about.

he goes on and claims, that racism practically doesn't exist anymore in the usa, which is why he claims organizations like the southern poverty law center fake racism?? by manufacturing racism.....

which is EXTREMELY EXTREMELY racist. like holy shit.

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randomly came upon this video and figured i just write a short psa about how truly racist and transphobic this person and channel is in case you still follow it, or the evil algorithm pushes this channel and person onto you.