Fullstack Farmer

Parents were botanists. I became a programmer.

Life brought me back to the land. Turns out I needed both.

I like touching grass - I'm a gardener. :)

[Fullstack Farmer @FullstackFellow]

Never frustrated? Never learning.

I'd like to take a minute to point out a failure of mine. After almost 20 years of enterprise software development I'm working to expand my skills into fabrication.

I wanted to make a bunch of indexing locations to help with seating dimensional lumber on my milling machine. I got it wrong... More than once. First time I decided to flip over the spoil board and try again. Burying my mistakes. This time; that luxury is already spent.

CNC, 3D Printing, small electronics and construction.

None of them come naturally to me the way that software development does. Perhaps it's my aphantasia but I can think for hours about how to lay things out but when it comes down to it; numbers just come out wrong sometimes.

What's a guy to do? Give up because of mistakes?

Gosh no. My mind is drawn back to university when I was studying 2nd year neuroscience as an interest course trying to figure out how learning actually works.

I oversimplify here; but doing things that push you up against the boundary of getting frustrated is the best way to learn.

So what if I'm deeply seated on the left side of the Dunning-Kruger curve for this new skillset?

It's better than getting complacent and being a stagnant expert.

Tell me; what do you do to get out of your comfort zone and get into the learning seat? What's your frontier of learning?

[Fullstack Farmer @FullstackFellow]

@DoWhileGeek @owenthcarey My dude. I like the way you think. Friends? :)

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@ryanships "grid down"?

More like "gardening vacation".

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@MaximLevoshin I got a used all-in-one touchscreen that was considered ewaste because it was too slow for windows.

Screaming fast with an SSD running Linux and a pygame UI

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@Saanvi_dhillon Momentum

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@sl1ma4 It's the line Agentic tools speeding up a result that could be eventually achieved without them and agents enabling a result that would not be possible in their absence.

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@DJSnM Yeah, Opus 5 didn't write the 15 year old PHP zero day. 😂

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@Chis27s @i2cjak ^ this guy gets it.

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@i2cjak Source: "lol-i cropped the axis"

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@blahmoah @Stringcodes Who needs to know languages any more?

Do try it though it's a solid winner if your project needs what it does well.

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@mholt6 A file referenced by your equivalent of AGENTS.md

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@ShangMa2 @Stringcodes You know it. New Friends?

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@blahmoah @Stringcodes My homie. New Friends?

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@ProgrammingCCC @Stringcodes I like you. You know what's up.

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@Stringcodes Erlang

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If you host stuff online and haven't panicked this week about whether your environments are secure then you really need to hire me or another security expert to panic on your behalf.

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@DasBFD @DorianDevelops For occasional use I recommend the Stihl electric series. A reasonable battery gets through most of felling and limbing a tree. By that point I need a break anyway.

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@DasBFD @DorianDevelops Starlink, solar panels and an AI rig to earn money.

Chainsaw, tractor and grit for everything else.

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@private_random @DorianDevelops Follow me. Not in Twitter land. I mean literally that's what I'm doing and it's a phenomenal decision.

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@MsJLHarper @DorianDevelops Lol. It's true through.