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Getting into robotics as a software engineer
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Re: Getting into robotics as a software engineer
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Web dev just has the best pay/perks for the amount of work.
It was exciting thirty, twenty-five, even twenty years ago. I loved it. But the pay/perks situation is dependent on putting up with a lot of corporate BS; if you're a solo developer, or the only developer in a small team, web stuff is hard, the task shrinks over time as things commoditise and you become more dependent on hosted offerings, and pays relatively poorly. I am tired and seeking a direction change before it…
I’m with you. I’d love to work in not web dev, but I don’t even know how to do that.
Feels like everything is server programming.
Re: Getting into robotics as a software engineer
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was exciting thirty, twenty-five, even twenty years ago. I loved it. But the pay/perks situation is dependent on putting up with a lot of corporate BS; if you're a solo developer, or the only developer in a small team, web stuff is hard, the task shrinks over time as things commoditise and you become more dependent on hosted offerings, and pays relatively poorly. I am tired and seeking a direction change before it…
I’m with you. I’d love to work in not web dev, but I don’t even know how to do that. Feels like everything is server programming.
I currently have the short-term luxury to rethink.
I am steering myself away from web dev tools (I'm a Laravel/PHP/Rails/Node.js/Vue/React/GraphQL/DB/server/Perl/HTML/CSS/front-end/back-end/every-bloody-end guy, jack-of-all-trades, master-of-some).
I've been doing it too long and I'm a solo/design agency worker now. I've built some big stuff (and some early semi-famous stuff) and I've also ended up doing the crappy-little-WP-site shuffle.
I am aiming specifically towards tools that reach out a little further.
Basically I am finally, after all these years, properly learning Python, which I have never once actually needed. Because it reaches further than the programming languages on that list. Into desktop app development. Into scientific computing. Into embedded. More towards 3D printing, GIS etc.
And it still works for all the web things, so I can bridge.
And perhaps most importantly, more towards teaching and education, so I can actually be some use before I die.
Re: Getting into robotics as a software engineer
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m with you. I’d love to work in not web dev, but I don’t even know how to do that. Feels like everything is server programming.
I currently have the short-term luxury to rethink. I am steering myself away from web dev tools (I'm a Laravel/PHP/Rails/Node.js/Vue/React/GraphQL/DB/server/Perl/HTML/CSS/front-end/back-end/every-bloody-end guy, jack-of-all-trades, master-of-some). I've been doing it too long and I'm a solo/design agency worker now. I've built some big stuff (and some early semi-famous stuff) and I've also ended up doing the crappy-l…
Learning different areas of programming is all well and good.
I started in game mechanics programming and graphics programming when I was a kid.
But that isn’t the same as knowing how to get a job in those fields.
Re: Getting into robotics as a software engineer
#105Make magazine has a great magazine on getting into robotics via the Battle Bots type of robots. I think it was an issue from 2022 or 2023 (not enough energy currently to track down the issue in their catalog) Here's an article on their site about the topic: https://makezine.com/tag/battlebots/
Reminds me of the UK TV show Robot Wars: