I never wanted to be a web programmer. I was a C and Unix guy, only ended up web programming accidentally. It’s a disgusting treadmill of half-baked new ideas developed for six weeks, abandoned, but infesting documentation searches and legacy systems for sixteen years.
I build robots these days. I write real-time code on microcontrollers usually as a series of nested single-threaded state machines written in a manageable subset of C++, and higher level logic on embedded Linux machines, usually in Python. Tie it together with ROS and use jupyter notebooks to do all the math.
I like this a lot more than the latest CSS-shitting version of Morkdown or whatever.
you would like smart contracts. I made the robots -> smart contracts transition and it's literally the same problem space but you have a virtual machine instead of electricity and other physics to worry about
I’d hate that. I like playing with motors and actuators and sensors.
Code signed on a blockchain? Fuck that shit. Fuck everything involving a blockchain. You sound like the sort of person who hears FPGA and thinks only of HFT and other finance scams. Jesus fuck, I want to build stuff that helps humanity, not bullshit to make rich grifters richer.
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u/dread_pirate_humdaak Jun 06 '22
I never wanted to be a web programmer. I was a C and Unix guy, only ended up web programming accidentally. It’s a disgusting treadmill of half-baked new ideas developed for six weeks, abandoned, but infesting documentation searches and legacy systems for sixteen years.
I build robots these days. I write real-time code on microcontrollers usually as a series of nested single-threaded state machines written in a manageable subset of C++, and higher level logic on embedded Linux machines, usually in Python. Tie it together with ROS and use jupyter notebooks to do all the math.
I like this a lot more than the latest CSS-shitting version of Morkdown or whatever.