Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

Post by MrBuddyCasino » Sat, May 04, 2024, 1:17 PM UTC

netbioserror wrote: post #490

sukruh wrote: post #35

Most of the people I know who pursue creative/crafting hobbies alongside a software development job have chosen to work for well-known big companies, for prestige and safety, and ended up unfulfilled in their jobs. Most big companies are not good if you want to solve problems and build stuff. Especially "the enterprise", where software is seen as a cost center so the less of it the better. The effort of managing up e…

I’m very lucky. I work on a very small software team, with a very flat structure, where my boss, with a very high level of trust, tasked me with replacing several very old parts of the product stack using my best judgment and choice of languages/tools. He also appreciated that during the interview, I mentioned that my work must be oriented towards customer value; that is the ultimate goal of any of our work. I am oft…

Post by kbolino » Sat, May 04, 2024, 1:27 PM UTC

neonsunset wrote: post #487

kbolino wrote: post #486

Earlier quoted context omitted.

K&R doesn't just mean the opening brace isn't on its own line, it also means single-line blocks have no braces at all. Always using braces but not putting the opening one on its own line is 1TBS (not the best name, but I don't know what else it's called).

You can omit them too (at the risk of legibility in some conditions). All these are configurable (and not enforced by default but you can definitely do so with .editorconfig). It is also fairly popular in C# to use expression-bodied members where they have just a single expression/statement e.g. class Test { public int Property => 42; public void Method() => Console.WriteLine(42); }

Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 04, 2024, 1:30 PM UTC

sukruh wrote: post #35

Most of the people I know who pursue creative/crafting hobbies alongside a software development job have chosen to work for well-known big companies, for prestige and safety, and ended up unfulfilled in their jobs. Most big companies are not good if you want to solve problems and build stuff. Especially "the enterprise", where software is seen as a cost center so the less of it the better. The effort of managing up e…

Post by agilob » Sat, May 04, 2024, 1:51 PM UTC

huppeldepup wrote: post #33

anonzzzies wrote: post #10

I am working on coding stuff I like as escape for the absurdity of modern software. I make little games, stuff for 8 bit systems etc. Stuff that is as far away from anything modern , especially the hell of node, next, devops and ‘web frameworks’ as I possibly can. It works. It’s very relaxing, like a bonsai tree.

I wonder whether we’ll see the same parallel as with cars: those with tech and those without - old-timers. I only code as a hobby anymore. Burnout destroyed my career and now I design PCBs and write embedded software without LLMs.

Post by DanielHB » Sat, May 04, 2024, 2:00 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #183

DanielHB wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anything you do 40 hours a week gets tiring eventually.

I haven't hit that stage yet. I mean, yes - work isn't fun. But I have coding side projects I work on, and it is fun for me, still!