I handwire keyboards. It's just like tying fishing flies except I burn my fingers sometimes.
this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I follow Keebin it with Kristina on Hack-a-Day but have yet to make the initial dive into custom keyboards. Definitely on my to-do list.
Yesterday I was looking at Donald Knuths Art of Computer Programming, and the book store had a "Often bought together with..." recommendation for a book about knitting inspired by the finnish national epos Kalevala.
Yeah, all the cool kids are knitting.
Knitting is also knitting for nerds. There's so much math involved if you want it to be!
I would love to be able to knit sweaters
Well its not like you can get paid for it anymore.
I mean, it's my day job, so I do get paid fr it, but it's much more enjoyable as a hobby.
I'm so envious that you have it as a job and a hobby. When I started coding I'd hoped I'd be one of those people that just whips up stuff in their free time for fun, but after finishing work I just find myself not wanting to code 😔
I deliberately avoided IT as a career because I didn't want my hobby to be ruined by making it work.
Unfortunately now I'm so buggered after working my normal job that I lack the energy (and time) to code much anyway. And I earn less, probably.
Think I might have played myself.
I like to program in the evenings until I hit a problem I don't immediately know how to solve, then the problem is something I can think about while driving to work or taking a shower or falling asleep. There's no pressure, and sometimes this takes weeks, with some reading up on things and research here and there. And then suddenly, a plan starts to form for how to deal with the problem, and I can't wait to go home and implement the solution. The important part is that it feels good, to thoroughly understand the task and to write code that flows like a clear line of thought.
Yeah, but if you don't have a programming job, the market is kinda shit right now.
Very much that.
Hopefully the "AI" bubble pops soon.
Agreed, you can actually accomplish things.
Not really
Bro I feel called out. 👁️👄👁️
I'd posit that it's closer to woodworking
I can see that! Though I've not done woodworking since my Scouts days, so I didn't even think of that comparison.
So is making chainmail, but from the opposite angle.
My brother made chainmail as a hobby
He did it as a job for a bit too, but it was a hobby first.