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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software (alinpanaitiu.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15205399

Really cool blog post with beautiful photos and starts with a fun and interesting intro, here captured in an image for the the tl;dr but-want-to-comment-anyway among you :

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Huh, I'm using technology as an escape from woodworking. Lack of space/tools and a few times when I tried to do something the wood was too seasoned (last thing I tried was whittling hoping to do it in my room anytime and not have dust as an issue, cheap folding knife probably didn't help)

Well not fully true on the escape part, I just drop things really easy when I run into issues like that. Well that and I haven't done anything noteworthy with technology or woodworking.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Check this out https://github.com/dylanaraps

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

For a period i worked in assisted living tech, testing prototypes together with staff and patients in nursing homes. That was a very rewarding type of IT/tech job with a short feedback loop that you're actually helping a real person.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Anything with your hands, really. I do cross stitch and used to build scale models

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I started in software and moved on to physics, which has a lot of programming and is similar in many ways. Still, it's different and I like that I made the choice. I will soon have contributed to physics in a small but meaningful way, which was my reason for switching. I plan to stop after that and just go back to programming. Posts like these make me think I should switch again but to an even more orthogonal subject.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Same energy: this legendary comment in an issue on the Docker github repo (by the issue OP, no less)

https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Left IT for flying. Figured it'd be a great change to my indoor-centric lifestyle.

My whole life I've seen people that are or became masters of their craft and I've always admired them. I'm in my 30s. I'm not sure if I'll ever be a master of anything but I was far closer in IT than I am as a pilot lol

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