computer geek

She was a computer geek and proud of it.

“The VPNs we use are much more complex than they were a few years ago,” said Mehdi, a 39-year-old self-described computer geek from Tehran.

A computer geek probably could have figured out a faster way to get to our first communication with one another on Facebook's Messenger, but I just went the old-school route.

It epitomized the ultimate kluge, a term invented years ago by a computer geek, writing about computer stuff, and it meant using junk to craft a workable if ugly solution to a problem.

“As far as we knew, he was kind of a computer geek that worked at home,” Steve Schmoldt, a neighbor, told the Nashville newspaper, the Tennessean.