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Mike McCaffreyMy boss asked me "what new skills do you think web developers will need in two years", which gave me an opportunity to tell her about my recent efforts to learn urban foraging and how to identify edible plants in my neighborhood.
I told my boss that I just started picking Chinese crab apples from the trees in my neighborhood, and she said that is her favorite and she ate so many of those as a child when food was scarce in soviet Ukraine.
Here's hoping that my #UrbanForaging will remain a hobby, and not become a necessity due to the #ImpendingEconomicCollapse.
EmB Philo
BenderIsGreat34@mikemccaffrey Gallows humour. *nods* Carry on.
@andymoose It's more of a ladder situation, now that I've grabbed all the low hanging Hawthorne and Dogwood berries.
lpbkdotnet@mikemccaffrey (serious response to a joke)
Walking sticks are better than ladders. You can hook it over higher branches and pull them down to a pickable level.
Pretty much doubles your reach, and much more portable!
Also, you can waggle it disapprovingly at anyone who asks what you're doing
Patch You Up@mikemccaffrey
- how to bandage a wound and prevent infection
- how to make an extract
- growing crops with minimal losses in small spaces
- using all possible parts of a carcass with reasonable effort
- how to speak corvid and cathartidae
- self defense with and without weaponry
- how to make friends in a post-apocalyptic setting
- avoiding the effects of fallout material
- how to be happy with only the sounds of nature and the inner monologue
- how to preserve books
(My starter list)
GiamedinAlso:
- soap making and preparing shampoo from yucca roots
- basic fibrous plant preparation and weaving
- water purification
econads@Jumpmed @mikemccaffrey I'm thinking how to sharpen a knife and make soap will also be super important. How to preserve without freezing if you're growing stuff now, it's my first year of garden and I've discovered "the glut".
Also if you're serious, the humanure handbook might be interesting for you.
DoomsdaysCWThis! 💯 !@mikemccaffrey
Andrew Zonenberg@mikemccaffrey First aid, celestial navigation, and basic plumbing are all handy skills to have as well :p
@mikemccaffrey (assuming the economy is collapsing but civilization is still somewhat functional you can make a lot of friends fixing leaky pipes and unclogging drains)
F4GRX Sébastien@azonenberg @mikemccaffrey definitely.
Mx Verda@azonenberg @mikemccaffrey in a house with one toilet that clogged horribly last night: can confirm.
@mikemccaffrey My son's a software engineer and a birder. Maybe I should tell him to concentrate on birds he could eat?
Wobin@mikemccaffrey "I can spin, weave, knit and crochet for the post computer apocalypse"
JudyH@mikemccaffrey 😆 Might I suggest having the "When There is No Doctor" guide handy https://languages.hesperian.org/pages/en/pdf.html in case of food poisoning 😜
Oliver SchafeldI have two tabs open, “Retraining as a train driver” and “Career change to primary school teaching.”
🤓😭😐
𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤The care and feeding of sourdough.
sarpau@mikemccaffrey
I'm sure your boss was delighted with your answer😆
I'm sure your boss was delighted with your answer😆
Janneke@mikemccaffrey
What about the skill of how to start a sociocratic worker cooperative?
What about the skill of how to start a sociocratic worker cooperative?
@janneke I mean that would be ideal, assuming we don't need to form armed militias instead to protect our neighborhoods from federal raiders.
Martin Rundkvist@mikemccaffrey
I appreciate the sentiment, but please consider the carrying capacity per square kilometre of foraging vs. agriculture.
I appreciate the sentiment, but please consider the carrying capacity per square kilometre of foraging vs. agriculture.
@mrundkvist A lot of it is agriculture, considering it is planted trees that people are just not taking full advantage of the fruit and nuts being produced.
MegatronicThronBanks@mikemccaffrey How to debug 15 companies worth of crap to figure out why it's impossible to type upper case letters in an input field. It's only 14 at the moment.
@mikemccaffrey been doing a lot of DIY, moving on to carpentry/roofing lately. My S/O has also been spending a **lot** of time trying to grow flowers/plants and she's moving to tomatoes and chili peppers.
We're both python devs and we're both trying to get away from computers, at least on our free time. I have **no** idea what our jobs will be like in two years...
Right now, I'm just trying to figure how big the crater will be when the AI bubble implodes.
Melville 
@mikemccaffrey I look forward to seeing the sharp rise in gardens planted by burnt-out tech people over the next few years.
Possumantha@mikemccaffrey food web development.
Drey@mikemccaffrey - !))% 5 Laughs: 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 .
@haitchfive@mikemccaffrey Good thing you approached it from a vegan perspective. The omnivorous route is much harder, considering the fauna available.
InfrogmationUrban pigeons are gonna be hit hard when the AI bubble crashes.
GinevraCat@mikemccaffrey Well played indeed!
Dale Trexel@mikemccaffrey I've been having a lot more fun posting about spinning our huskies' fur into yarn and knitting projects from it over at @Paws2Spindle than I've had posting about tech/Drupal here!
Kevin + Drupal + Beard@mikemccaffrey in the 90s I was asked to budget for what we'd need for infrastructure for web in 2, 5 and 10 years. In year 10, I asked for $2 million for a flying boat. Seeing as we were working with ASP, MSSQL and PointCast (things that didn't exist 10 years ago) at the time, a flying boat seemed about as reasonable as anything else we might need.
Ross of Ottawa@mikemccaffrey how to build a small shelter using corporate-logo t-shirts and ID badge lanyards.
🅐🅛🅘🅒🅘🅐@mikemccaffrey lmao I actually have an Anki deck dedicated to this
RE 🇨🇦@mikemccaffrey My pandemic era gardening skills are going be critically important in two years, assuming I can find an open plot in the woods somewhere.
Ma Quest 
@mikemccaffrey Thanks for posting! Tagging for an early #SolarPunkSunday
Hari Seldon's dead hand@mikemccaffrey
Yeah. If you have space for it, starting a food garden might be a good idea right about now. Since we're doing all this 'winning', we could call them Victory Gardens 2.0
Yeah. If you have space for it, starting a food garden might be a good idea right about now. Since we're doing all this 'winning', we could call them Victory Gardens 2.0
Michael B.@mikemccaffrey normally it's satisfying to see many people having the same thoughts as myself. But in this case I feel some limitations....