I always get a vicarious scare from that kind of doom porn post. After nearly 40 years of the thrill of the keyboard and accumulating a studio/lab tan, I never

I always get a vicarious scare from that kind of doom porn post. After nearly 40 years of the thrill of the keyboard and accumulating a studio/lab tan, I never had one of those 20-questions interviews. In days of yore, tool kits barely mattered beyond good knowledge of a language, some sort of platform-specific API or the other, and (rarely) deep knowledge of an esoteric processor. Truth is, of course, that the work has changed in fundamental ways. Established companies moved from the cowboy approach (buncha people, money, a trade show in a year, here's a product definition, GO!!) to what smells a lot more like an assembly line gig. Finally hitting a modern shop is what made me finally retire. Modern practices, while perhaps efficient in some way, are no fun. Give me a 20 year old body, and I'd go into the trades or some sort of purposeful anachronism (blacksmithing?) at this point.