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 :

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    7 months ago

    One of my coworkers and I often discuss quitting our stressful-stupid IT jobs and going to work at Home Depot or Costco or even Arby’s.

    Today I took my car in for routine service. A place I use all the time. Major chain.

    The poor guy checking me in had to click past about 50 stupid pointless prompts on his workstation. He had serious muscle memory going on. The man was impressive, the software was not.

    I can just imagine the asshole midlevel manager who made some beleaguered coder write all that pointless popup shit, to make sure “they don’t forget to upsell the customer” and god knows what other inane nonsense .

    It’s embarassing how bad software is in 2024. Especially point of sale systems and medical records.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    7 months ago

    If I could keep my salary I’d find another line of work. Something outside maybe? Whatever lets my brain go home at night.

    • erwan@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      7 months ago

      Working outside sounds great when you’re working indoor all the time. And at first it will be refreshing.

      However after a few years (months?) of working outside, in the cold, the rain, the heat, you’ll envy the office workers and their perfect temperature open space with a nearby coffee corner.

  • peskywarrior@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    7 months ago

    Left IT for flying. Figured it’d be a great change to my indoor-centric lifestyle.

    My whole life I’ve seen people that are or became masters of their craft and I’ve always admired them. I’m in my 30s. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be a master of anything but I was far closer in IT than I am as a pilot lol

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    I feel this. At my last job, there were many meetings I didn’t think were useful in addition of software change just for the sake of change. Package.json errors everywhere. Small issues with docker to fix all day.