A readme file for Dylan Araps from 3 days ago saying “have taken up farming” and the github page for neofetch has also been archived. Good for him I guess.
A readme file for Dylan Araps from 3 days ago saying “have taken up farming” and the github page for neofetch has also been archived. Good for him I guess.
At some point every professional computer person - programmer, sysadmin, whatever - will seriously consider piling all their computers into a big pile, lighting them on fire, and moving to the country to start a new life making things with their hands
Plants and animals don’t file tickets.
Things made out of wood don’t suddenly stop working cos you looked away for 15 seconds and Wood v2.1.4 is incompatible with Nails v4.0, but if you upgrade Nails you also have to upgrade Paint to v2.2 and they completely changed their API because the old API wasn’t sufficiently cool anymore
Woodworking is very popular among techies for a reason. As are playing music and climbing (bouldering)
This past weekend, I picked up a little wooden craft kit. All the pieces were pre-cut and I just had to glue and fit things together. I put it together yesterday and I can confirm, it was the most satisfying thing I’ve built in ages.
I’m an avid hiker personally
Especially in the local wilderness where I don’t get cell reception
It’s nice knowing that literally no matter how important somebody thinks their problem is they can’t reach me no matter how hard they try AND no matter how much my reflex is to check my email for “important” things that need taken care of I literally can’t check it.
I am also an IT nerd that hikes as much as I can, when the weather permits. Too many of my local trails have decent reception so I have to just forget my phone exists for a while.
Or wood 2.2 has an unpatched zero day and now some dude in Russia owns your barn until you repaint every surface (wipe and reload)
You thought
In fact, your farm equipment is made not to be repaired by you. Your tractors and what have you are very anti repair
I’m more of the “Van by the River” or “Hermit in a Log Cabin” type.
I’m still working in tech (remotely), but otherwise living the “hermit in a cabin” lifestyle. It’s nice.
If you pay attention, you start noticing that a lot of DIY/maker Youtubers are former software developers.
Make tons of money as a software dev and get a big collection of tools and retire early to Spend the rest of your days as far away from software as you can
I’ve basically done that minus the lighting stuff on fire part. Moved out to the country, still making a living with the whole computer stuff but I own some forest, I’m a volunteer firefighter and I’ve got a huge, wild garden.
It’s good for my mental health.
When does it happen? I’m 53, and still obsessed with software development and technology in general. Moving to the country sound like it’s nice and quiet, but too far away from urban things I enjoy.
Oh don’t get me wrong, 99% of the time I love my career and 15 years in I still get a kick out of crafting code to make the stupid little machines do what I want.
The other 1% of the time - a couple of days a year - I get home at the end of the day with a profound sense that these machines are driving me slowly mad