Special meaning for a highly skilled Software Engineer who acts like a string ninja to program software in many programminglanguages, but not limited to a personal computer.
First coined by Microsoft's Larry Hyrb to describe Laura Massey who works at Microsoft as a Software Engineer on the Xbox 360. Laura is leader of the worldwide codist's and the last best hope of xexkind.
Novice: your a codist?
Codist: Yeah, I <3 to party.
Novice: wanna hit up a club?
Codist: No, not that kind of party, I invented the Xbox LiveParty system.
Novice: oh. wanna hit up a club?
Codist: *facepalm*
The state of stealing code of a computer program without giving credit commonly taken from github without credit or by ripping clientside code from a program.
Code that a programmer produces that serves no purpose other than being self-gratifying. Typically involving some new framework or language feature unnecessarily just because it's "cool" but where it adds nothing.
Sure we could re-write the application to use a more service-oriented model, but it won't gain us anything over what we currently have and amounts to nothing more than codesturbation.