1w ago

Programming as a hobby is just knitting for nerds

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Yesterday I was looking at Donald Knuths Art of Computer Programming, and the book store had a "Often bought together with..." recommendation for a book about knitting inspired by the finnish national epos Kalevala.
Bro I feel called out. 👁️👄👁️
I handwire keyboards. It's just like tying fishing flies except I burn my fingers sometimes.
- I follow Keebin it with Kristina on Hack-a-Day but have yet to make the initial dive into custom keyboards. Definitely on my to-do list.
Yeah, all the cool kids are knitting.
- Knitting is also knitting for nerds. There's so much math involved if you want it to be!
- I would love to be able to knit sweaters
Well its not like you can get paid for it anymore.
- I mean, it's my day job, so I do get paid fr it, but it's much more enjoyable as a hobby.
  
  I'm so envious that you have it as a job and a hobby. When I started coding I'd hoped I'd be one of those people that just whips up stuff in their free time for fun, but after finishing work I just find myself not wanting to code 😔
  
  Agreed, you can actually accomplish things.
  
  Yeah, but if you don't have a programming job, the market is kinda shit right now.
- Not really
I'd posit that it's closer to woodworking
- I can see that! Though I've not done woodworking since my Scouts days, so I didn't even think of that comparison.
So is making chainmail, but from the opposite angle.
- My brother made chainmail as a hobby
  He did it as a job for a bit too, but it was a hobby first.

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