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 :

  • erwan@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    In IT sometimes you open an old project and wonder who the fuck wrote this shit.

    As a contractor you tear down a wall and discover the house wasn’t built as you expected, and wonder who the fuck built it this way.