I guess that depends on how loosely you want to define your terms. I'm a former homemaker whose writings on some emails lists were seemingly popular for a time. This led to a couple of websites. I eventually learned a little (x)html and css to manage my sites. I suppose you could define me as "part of the general public" and "someone who can code". But I certainly don't think of myself as a hacker or programmer and couldn't qualify for a job writing code, just like I know a little conversational German, can count to 10 in Russian, know a smattering of Spanish words and can read and write a smidgeon of French but I don't think I'm a linguist or even bilingual. I'm simply not that fluent. I just dabble.
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I guess that depends on how loosely you want to define your terms. I'm a former homemaker whose writings on some emails lists were seemingly popular for a time. This led to a couple of websites. I eventually learned a little (x)html and css to manage my sites. I suppose you could define me as "part of the general public" and "someone who can code". But I certainly don't think of myself as a hacker or programmer and couldn't qualify for a job writing code, just like I know a little conversational German, can count to 10 in Russian, know a smattering of Spanish words and can read and write a smidgeon of French but I don't think I'm a linguist or even bilingual. I'm simply not that fluent. I just dabble.