Don't brand yourself as that, because you subject yourself to the cultural baggage that comes with it, including the hiring practices and aesthetics (if you can call them that).
"But I program mostly for the web!" No, you don't program _just_ for the web, you program more holistically than your peers, you said it yourself:
> my peers tend to fear data structures...and present an extreme fear of original code
Don't brand yourself as that, because you subject yourself to the cultural baggage that comes with it, including the hiring practices and aesthetics (if you can call them that).
"But I program mostly for the web!" No, you don't program _just_ for the web, you program more holistically than your peers, you said it yourself:
> my peers tend to fear data structures...and present an extreme fear of original code
And we really need more people like that.