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 :

  • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Sure, you can deploy and maintain an app, but you can’t reach out and touch it, smell it, or move it.

    I’d say that tactile fetish for objects is fitting coming from a society that frowns upon physical contact with people.

    and challenge yourself to think in new ways.

    I find that the wish is actually thinking as little as possible. That’s a nightmare for me.