I installed a dimmer switch for the living room light today. It only took 5 min, but lifting up that faceplate and peering into the junction box felt like opening a portal to the afterlife. My connection to this world hung on by a copper wire, 120V separating a cozy evening from the Great Fire of 2024.
There's no type checking, no syntax highlighting, just my predecessor's loose reading of the National Electrical Code and my heart as the debugger. It's been two centuries since the first electric light, and I've spent every minute of that terrified. This is why I'm a software guy.
There's no type checking, no syntax highlighting, just my predecessor's loose reading of the National Electrical Code and my heart as the debugger. It's been two centuries since the first electric light, and I've spent every minute of that terrified. This is why I'm a software guy.