ecalifornica
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
- Decompress and seek fun, instead of aiming to "get a project done". Follow whatever excites you. If nothing excites you, step away from the keyboard. Go for a walk, bring a notebook.
- The Artist's Way is great for processing burnout, and self-discovery. One does not need to consider themselves an artist to find the book useful. ( https://juliacameronlive.com/book/the-artists-way-a-spiritua... )
You mention hardware, have you made a silly hardware thing recently? I can recommend running Rust on an esp32, lots of fun.
*And height limits.
> When a BART car runs into trouble, Shawn Stange steps back in time. He pops open a circa-2000 IBM Thinkpad running Windows 98 and opens a portal into the train’s brain — the Automated Train Control system — through the DOS computer language.
> Stacks of vintage laptop carcasses are common at BART warehouses. The train software is so old it won’t work on modern computers.
Reminds me of the software archeology in Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky.
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