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Thought it was going to be woodworking. Turns out it’s gardening. And shitty woodworking.

If 66 was the end, what, guitar solos?

Thank you, I agree. 😂

all Mike wants is a little respect (voice gets super high) toooooo oooooooh paaaaiiinttttttttt

Best two out of three?

@alancrissey.com you’re TOO MANY SYNTHESIZERS

Just @ me FFS. Oh, and watchmaking

I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the pickle fountain @amye.org made last week. bsky.app/profile/amye...

lol yessss

wait y'all don't use bread to make pickles? paprikaandfriends.com/hungarian-ko...

Depends on how they’re pickled

and butter

Distilling

In which category would you put "(occasional) documentation writer and editor"?

Dungeon Master

you bastard (...potter)

Still coding, but a little of the first and a lot of the last while consciously avoiding the second.

Leather work

Potter

Wait, what if I'm all three but they were all *before* professional coding?

Guilty of breads and synths, but as a former Rever employee it was a professional inevitability.

Bread in winter, garden in summer

wait what about the fantasy where I retire and setup an entire model railroad in the garage, complete with exploding volcanoes?

synthetic biochemist, highly recommend

Baking bread and fermenting ginger bug into carbonated drinks 🤣

Acoustic instruments rather than synths, but guilty as charged on all three. The instrument restoration/woodworking overlap is a truly dangerous area. (Still coding, tho)

Is fountain pens and origami woodworking?

BLOCKED AND REPORTED

There was nearly a “too many synthesisers” moment but I took a hard left into roguelites and hiding under the duvet

Don’t leave out knitting! Baking bread is definitely one of them for me.

actually nah if yr gonna be an ex coder baker just go full farmer but still build the synthesizers

yes

If I could afford to be a former coder, I would be too many synthesizers

At least you’re using one of those domains

yes

Why do I have to choose?

🥰😘😘😘

All three, but currently ukuleles instead of synths… though in my defense, they are the result of the woodworking ;-)

what if you are not former coder but you fall into multiple categories

Oh to be a former coder

A too many sports one, obviously

does it count if coding was the last stage after all 3 of those?

TTRPG and aspiring woodworking. Although to be fair immediately after coding I was a sysadmin and infrastructure manager

I'm... in the process of transitioning to woodworking i think. Just a few more tools. Then, it's time to start automating them.......

All of the above?

woodworking, thx

Not enough synthesizers. Too many harps. Woodworking (to make harps).

Film photography

I'm the kind who never liked in the first place and took some time to realize it wasn't for me and now just looks at birds

I've been "Too many percussion instruments" before, which is a bit "Too many synths" but with the tactile experience of "Woodwork"

in order, something like: guitar --> gardening --> playing Go --> learning Japanese

Um I do all three…

Hardware development. 😁

Of the three archetypes presented, closest to woodworking.

I would say I have just enough synthesizers, thank you very much.

well I'm reading this from the pottery studio, so...

Oh, I… have not forgotten

cameras, anil. come on.

Baking bread (literally have a loaf rising right now) and knitting. (I feel like knitting’s gotta be in the former-coder mix!)

I mean, I currently have about 7/10 of a synthesizer. So, is not /enough/ synthesizers an option? Oh, and it will have a wood case when it's complete.

Por que no los tres?

Fresh out of the oven. Only a few bugs. So nice not to have QA on my ass.

Does making a film count as woodworking?

still coding but every day spending another minute to make the little script that tells me how long before retirement more full-featured

A little #1, a little #3, with more than a dash of wool spinning and gardening. Was a fiction writer long before code.

This was apparently prophetic because I have just turned in an application for a carpentry course. Do you have any jaunty engagement questions about picking lotto numbers? 👀

I was a guitar player first. Now that I've retired from coding, I'm writing my own virtual guitar amp and pedals.

I did just buy a cz-5000, so you tell me.

hopefully the last two!

I’m steam-cleaning the kitchen tile grout tomorrow. And I’m excited about it.

Woodworking is technically a subset of gardening.

native plants

Oh synthesizer club, for sure.

Luthiers are carpenters with strings attached

Thanks, Dave. Now I feel seen 😂

Management 😭

I bake and have a woodworking shop (dtfabs.com) but I never learned to code

Ancient BASIC and original C+ guy, now ancient house, nightdrive, breakbeat dabbler. Oh god it's in us gen x-ers too... nooooo

Quilter

You woke up this morning and CHOSE this violence, Anil.

Oh my god. I'm still coding, but I'm also baking bread, woodworking, and am sort of interested in synthesizers...

My musical talents peaked in third grade with the recorder, but bread and woodworking ✅… there’s also Lego, lots of Lego.

*appreciate

Farmer - which has a bit of bread and woodworking too.

you don’t know me

<thumps telescope down> Other.

Knitting

Cider. Probably under the “fermentation” phylum with bread.

There’s no such thing as too many synths.

Not quite former coder just yet, but ... Type 3.

Potter

Hail gluten.

C'mon, Anil, this is just stereotyping. There's also pottery.

When you code an eight track sequencer it stands to reason that you need a synthesizer per track.