in reply to Who's still around?
Hello stevieb it is interesting because you already started meditations like this one and this is one of the reason I'm still here in some way.
I find this community very real in the sense we have history: is not something ephemeral like get in, ask, grab and disappear unpersonal, anonymous and, let me say, squalid and sad internet place.
Also pretending to appear like a monastery brings implicitly and effectively something more: the independence of a monastic order like it used (and still use) to be, the proudness of a Frei Hansestadt (sorry my thoughts flight toward Bremen), the freedom of a pirates island in the middle of the Sea of Forgotten Meanings, a place where CAT cant get your tongue.
As every place with freedom we also attract emarginated minds as they always have the will to express themselves and while dealing with this is a work it also brings sometime rare gifts.
About myself I always presented me like an amateur programmer more than I'm not a programmer but yes, got your point. Perl is my only language in the sense I tried something else and get bored very soon. I'm a Perl native :) and yes I feel I'm a hacker.
Nowadays sadly I do not program at all for two main reasons: the first and sad part is that the company I work for (Spaghetti Company then merged into Macaroni Group ;) prefers to underuse me giving me boring stuff to do. Perl is no fashion since decades and they have a constant need of Big Projects (they are not able to realize btw) and there is no more room for intelligence, creativity and freedom. No searching for Perl jobs anymore: I work 5 hours for a decent (for Eataly) salary, so I stay with this.
The second reason is bound to my personal need to have fun and challenges. Perl used to be my best hobby too for almost 20 years but recently my life changed and I found music more appealing than programming in general. I'm an amateur musician: I play the guitar and I sing and I compose lyrics and songs ..without knowing the basic (as in programming) and without reading music sheets I presented myself with my first MIDI keyboard and I play it with fun and intersting piece of music come out.
I finally took my raspberry PI4 8Gb RAM out of the box and I enjoy playing with Ardour, jackd, guitarix, Hydrogen, Sonic Pi, nylon guitar, a decend external sound card, electric guitar and my voice.
Mixing personal and community stuff, other intersting and related topics are:
..so I'm still here somehow, as Jack of all Trades, as amateur programmer or just because here are you, special people with beautiful minds and hearts too.
L*
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