Greetings. It has been a long long while. I mostly stopped professional software development with Perl around 2013. Since then i mostly have worked in the DevOps field, using a number of dynamic languages to create pipelines for various teams. I did manage to accept a Perl gig in 2018 but that turned out to be quite possibly THE worst job i have ever worked. The environment was incredibly oppressive and my cow-orkers were either evil, incompetent or lethargic. Before i took that gig however, i re-discovered my love for synthesizers and electronic music and i had already acquired a large number of desktop modules, effects pedals and nice 24 track mixer. After that awful job in 2018 however, i had it in my mind to stop programming and do something else. I bought a soldering iron and a few kits. A few kits led to a few more kits including a ring modulator and delay pedal. Those kits led to errors, and to correct those errors i needed education. I bought some components and breadboards. I bought a dual power supply kit and successfully put it together without getting shocked and/or getting deathed. I read Art of Electronics and the Forrest M Mimms III field notebooks. I watched tons of Colin's Lab and EEVBlog videos on Youtube. I built my own mixer, power amps, MIDI thru boxes, a MIDI sequencer (with Arduino) and a MIDI synth, a dual distortion+delay pedal and DC to DC distribution box. All in all, this previous decade was a long slow ride to the bottom -- and once there i used it as an opportunity to learn new skills. Not sure how much Perl programming in 2020 and beyond will offer me ... but here we still are. I am going to use this opportunity to relearn computers and programming from the ground up this time. :)

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