I'm deeply disappointed that I didn't get the job at Framework. If ever there was going to be a modern laptop maker that was going to let me design a Floppy Disk Module to slot in, it was them.

Maybe I should put a warning on my resume.

No matter what you do, I will find a way to make it:
1. Use floppy disks
2. Run Doom
3. Be or have a novelty keyboard

@foone Your resume should type itself from a novelty keyboard.
@foone a USB/Bluetooth keyboard with the keys as screens running doom with a floppy slot to add wad files
@foone how about a keyboard that runs doom, only has the keys needed for playing doom, and the keys are floppy drives that are pressed by inserting and ejecting disks?
@foone if you ever design an fpga-based keyboard form factor computer, I’m in, no questions asked
@foone
Novelty keyboard? I'm in
@foone I wouldn’t lie and say I’d buy one, but I would like the option to buy a laptop with an 8” floppy drive and a perfectly size-matched screen.
@Novyx @foone where would you source the floppies from?
@foone digital pee stick test as a hid device…
@yakmoose I never actually made it a HID device! it's on my todo, though
@foone por que no los tres?
@foone You're just the man we need here at Amalgamated Pacemakers!
@foone Laughing. Used to play Doom from a floppy.
@foone Patrick Star Voice: "Is using an #UltraNav-Style #TrackPoint a novelty Keyboard?"
@foone I’m imaging a fold out design similar to their ethernet port
@foone if you produced a demo of having a floppy disk drive soldered directly onto the motheboard, i bet apple would go for it
@Viss @foone I'm still entertained by my terrible idea of a contactless floppy reader that uses a degauss discharge to (destructively) simultaneously read every bit. I mean, it makes no sense, but it would be fun to write it into a story.

@kboyd @foone oh this sounds juicy and delicious, im totally in :D

gimme a one-shot-read, mission impossible style 'oh fuck it just caught fire' diskette :D

@Viss @foone yeah, but they'd glue in the disk.
@foone I sympathize, that sounds like it would have been cool. You're still awesome even if they didn't think your skills were the right fit right now. Best of luck 🤞🏽🍀🤞🏽💪❤️👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
@foone @m04 you know what you need to do now
@foone Floppies are too mainstream.. perhaps they'd be more interested in a punch card reader?
@foone Dang. A Framework with a Greaseweazle plug-in module would be SWEET. A literal go-anywhere one-box disk imager.
@philpem I know, right? Framework! If you won't hire me, at least send me a free laptop to design this on!
@foone have you ever run Doom on a Gotek? You've got some buttons, and a small OLED screen ...
@thejpster nope. Good idea, though
@foone @thejpster it does have enoigh "Oompfh!" to do so AFAICT...

@foone similar feels for me...

https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy

GitHub - KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy: A new storage media format using modern interfaces.

A new storage media format using modern interfaces. - KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy

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