A readme file for Dylan Araps from 3 days ago saying “have taken up farming” and the github page for neofetch has also been archived. Good for him I guess.
At some point every professional computer person - programmer, sysadmin, whatever - will seriously consider piling all their computers into a big pile, lighting them on fire, and moving to the country to start a new life making things with their hands
Plants and animals don’t file tickets.
Things made out of wood don’t suddenly stop working cos you looked away for 15 seconds and Wood v2.1.4 is incompatible with Nails v4.0, but if you upgrade Nails you also have to upgrade Paint to v2.2 and they completely changed their API because the old API wasn’t sufficiently cool anymore
Woodworking is very popular among techies for a reason. As are playing music and climbing (bouldering)
It’s all fun and games until you realize modern farm equipment has more shitty tech in it than the datacenters you’re running away from
So he went out to touch grass literally
Ugh another developer lost to the outside.
Dylan is a genius of the profound variety. I was concerned when he seemed to disappear; I’m delighted it looks like a happier ending.
Thank you for making the world make better sense, Dylan!
exit 0He became friends with mental outlaw, didn’t he?
Man got tired of working for JojaMart
That guy has some great projects
Had*
Well, farming is a cool project but I don’t think that’s what you’re referring to.
Using Linux is just the first step to leaving tech and becoming a farmer. And we all want it one day
Sometimes I feel like farming would be better than DevOps.
Whats a good alternative?
Get a remote job and do both until you know enough to quit tech?
I meant for neofetch lol
