When talking to people I really want to emote. I am self conscious that people will think I am not interested/excited in the conversation. Through most of my life 'programming/tech' was something that I cared about. I never had any friends/family that cared though. When I became an adult and started working it felt like a re-birth of sorts :)
I just don't ever want anyone else to feel like I am not interested/excited. I will try dropping the exclamation points, and I hope that my enthusiasm still comes through.
My suggestion would be to throw in related illustrative real world anecdotes that drive a point home (personal experiences of real world impact of the tech or the architecture decisions, for example) instead of exclamation marks. That conveys the 'interested' part, and shows you can demonstrate real world connections to stuff that might otherwise be dry and academic. But it doesn't use exclamation marks! ;)
I’m glad I saw this follow-up reply before commenting, as I was about to respectfully disagree. I only saw one ! in the HN comment you replied to that I thought was superfluous. Checking your example link however, I instead feel your feedback is well warranted.
When talking to people I really want to emote. I am self conscious that people will think I am not interested/excited in the conversation. Through most of my life 'programming/tech' was something that I cared about. I never had any friends/family that cared though. When I became an adult and started working it felt like a re-birth of sorts :)
I just don't ever want anyone else to feel like I am not interested/excited. I will try dropping the exclamation points, and I hope that my enthusiasm still comes through.