"I began to use the term 'software engineering' to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process."

Women are natural computer programmers - '“It’s just like planning a dinner,” explains Dr. Grace Hopper'

https://archive.org/details/the-computer-girls-cosmopolitan-magazine-april-1967/The%20Computer%20Girls%20-%20Cosmopolitan%20magazine%20%28April%201967%29%20%5Bocr%5D/mode/2up

Most men who call themselves software engineers don't actually follow the principles of engineering the way Margaret Hamilton did.

Fedi's own @lisamelton

May remind that person that #assembly was invented and co-written by a woman and her husband. And she was subsequently scolded for doing so by a man named John von Neumann for wasting so much valuable computing time. Who, I assume, later came around to see the merits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth

Trans women programmers are in fact women programmers. Trans women face many barriers simply for being who they are. Trans women have been kicked out of their careers, treated with disrespect, and been harassed for being trans women. And it's getting worse, not better.

And, as for the achievement bit: A trans woman invented VLSI, a trans woman invented ARM 32 bit assembly language, and trans women maintain many of the FOSS softwares you use today (including Asahi Linux and the VC4 Mesa driver, amongst other things)

And a trans woman wrote the post you are reading right now.

I have subjected myself to writing TI 84 code in hexadecimal with a Z80 reference chart I printed from the internet, and trust me, assembly is way easier.

I wrote the machine code by first writing assembly and putting in the bytes by hand.