Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software - eviltoast
If you had the choice to sculpt a leg chair out of wood or write a full-fledged audio engine, complete with kernel drivers and whatnot, inside an app for controlling monitor brightness, what wou… Wait, no, that's not a question, you would do the leg chair for sure. There's no way that other thing makes sense.

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 :

  • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
    301·
    6 months ago

    If I could keep my salary I’d find another line of work. Something outside maybe? Whatever lets my brain go home at night.

    • erwan@lemmy.mlEnglish
      16·
      6 months ago

      Working outside sounds great when you’re working indoor all the time. And at first it will be refreshing.

      However after a few years (months?) of working outside, in the cold, the rain, the heat, you’ll envy the office workers and their perfect temperature open space with a nearby coffee corner.