Mastodawn

Like many software developers, I fear AI will be taking most of our jobs.

So in conjunction with my friend, Louise Blockidge, the best tradesperson I've ever met. We're starting a bootcamp to retrain software developers as plumbers; the pay is great, it won't get take by AI and when you fix something it stays fixed, unlike every microservice I've ever deployed.
Find out more: https://www.daveliddament.co.uk/articles/systems-to-cisterns/

Systems Engineer to Cisterns Engineer

The bootcamp for software engineers who want to switch to plumbing.

Dave Liddament's website

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PaulB Mar 6

@publicwondering @pikhq
You've captured it perfectly there. So many people who dislike AI, and there are plenty of reasons to, seem to think it is the fault of the rank and file developers.
Their principles won't pay our grocery bills.

PaulB Mar 6

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James Mar 6

@pikhq I have had ~25 years coding professionally. The first job I had beat all the love for it out of me. I partially regained that when I learnt #Python 15 years ago. Lately I've realised that most of my jobs were BS to make a rich guy richer.

The ethical places I've chosen to work lately bring interesting coding, but also some tedious grind. I despise AI, but I'm encouraged to use it to get things done quickly. We all have bills to pay and sadly caring doesn't pay them. #capitalism

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PaulB Feb 2

@recantha I do wonder what the use case is for 16g. I got one about a year ago but I was disappointed by the performance when I tried to build a desktop around it. It's now my NFS server and it is excellent at that but I have at least 12g more than I need for that.

PaulB Jan 3

🦋ShouldbeWriting🦋Jan 1

"The etymology of the word hoard," said the dragon, "has not changed much. It has long referred to a secret and well-guarded collection of coins or valuables - but it may also refer to anything a dragon chooses to hoard. The nearby goblin village treats me like a god and makes offerings to me, so I have extended my protection to them. Therefore, you can say that I hoard my horde hoard."

"So they debase themselves for you?"

"No. My horde hoard," said the dragon, "has never whored."

PaulB Dec 14

Brian Bilston Dec 14

I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.

PaulB Dec 9

Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒Dec 9

My age: I get this joke 🤣
#humor #phones

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PaulB Dec 5

@drj I was watching Bargain Hunt yesterday and they had a section where they went round a retro computer museum. The presenter was discussing the Mac Classic and was saying how one of its benefits was a built in memory card slot.
Camera panned to show floppy drive.

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PaulB Nov 4

@ramblingsteve thanks. That's a great idea. I was aware of Pico-8 for retro style gaming but it hadn't occurred to me at all as an option.
I can see it might capture some of the magic of my own early amateurish hacks at BBC Basic on the Acorn Electron.

PaulB Nov 3

I'm looking for recommendations for a gentle introduction to coding for my 11 year old daughter, please. She did a little Scratch but lost interest in that so looking for something different.
I'm thinking probably Python but it doesn't have to be. The main things is to have some nice simple examples to work through that won't overwhelm her.
Any suggestions? Thanks.