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Yes, radio silence for two years, then he archived all his repos and added a notice somewhere that he has taken up farming: https://news.itsfoss.com/neofetch-ri

Yes, radio silence for two years, then he archived all his repos and added a notice somewhere that he has taken up farming: https://news.itsfoss.com/neofetch-rip/ https://news.itsfoss.com/neofetch-rip/

ethanholt1 3y ago
Reminds me of “I no longer build software, I now build furniture out of wood.” https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477 https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...
- nolongerthere 3y ago
  Hilarious that you have that saved. Any reason for why? Building up the courage to follow suit and use this for encouragement perhaps?
  - bee_rider 3y ago
    FWIW it was posted in a popular thread here in the last few days.
- fmajid 3y ago
  Or in Tracey Kidder's book The Soul of a New Machine, the hardware engineer who tires of debugging nanosecond timing heisenglitches, moves to a commune in Vermont where he will not have to deal with units of time less than a season.
  - popey 3y ago
    Love that book. It enabled me to have one of my favourite flights of all time. Sat next to Chris Turner, chatting about his time at Acorn for about 9 hours. I blogged about something related and included this anecdote part way through. https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/a-virus-for-the-bbc-micro/ https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/a-virus-for-the-bbc-micro/ - under "A short aside"
jongjong 3y ago
This has been a personal fantasy of mine. Every time I read a story about someone dropping software and buying a farm, I'm overcome with envy.
- HankB99 3y ago
  Not my fantasy. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bought-the-farm.html https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bought-the-farm.html
- bee_rider 3y ago
  Maybe try to take a sabbatical and start a garden instead. Farmers deal with annoying shit in their day jobs just like the rest of us… except theirs is literal!
- bityard 3y ago
  I'm not a farmer but I'm from the midwest and I know a little about farming... very few are farmers by choice. Many have second jobs, just to pay the bills. There are niche and upscale farms that grow specific things like apples and wine grapes that can do quite well, but these are well established family-run businesses that would cost millions of dollars to buy, when they come up for sale at all.
soygem 3y ago
Gigachad meme personified. "Archives hyper-popular Linux utility - picks up farming - leaves".
- xanderlewis 3y ago
  A bit like Perelman who rejected a Fields medal and then told a journalist who dared to ring him up after he had moved to the Russian countryside ‘You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms’.
echelon_musk 3y ago
"This isn't so bad, huh? Making bucks, getting exercise, working outside."
Apocryphon 3y ago
More and more such cases! https://twitter.com/timokonkwo_/status/1785340149582143947 https://twitter.com/timokonkwo_/status/1785340149582143947

ethanholt1 3y ago

Reminds me of “I no longer build software, I now build furniture out of wood.” https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477 https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...

nolongerthere 3y ago
Hilarious that you have that saved. Any reason for why? Building up the courage to follow suit and use this for encouragement perhaps?
- bee_rider 3y ago
  FWIW it was posted in a popular thread here in the last few days.
fmajid 3y ago
Or in Tracey Kidder's book The Soul of a New Machine, the hardware engineer who tires of debugging nanosecond timing heisenglitches, moves to a commune in Vermont where he will not have to deal with units of time less than a season.
- popey 3y ago
  Love that book. It enabled me to have one of my favourite flights of all time. Sat next to Chris Turner, chatting about his time at Acorn for about 9 hours. I blogged about something related and included this anecdote part way through. https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/a-virus-for-the-bbc-micro/ https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/a-virus-for-the-bbc-micro/ - under "A short aside"

jongjong 3y ago

This has been a personal fantasy of mine. Every time I read a story about someone dropping software and buying a farm, I'm overcome with envy.

HankB99 3y ago
Not my fantasy. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bought-the-farm.html https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bought-the-farm.html
bee_rider 3y ago
Maybe try to take a sabbatical and start a garden instead. Farmers deal with annoying shit in their day jobs just like the rest of us… except theirs is literal!
bityard 3y ago
I'm not a farmer but I'm from the midwest and I know a little about farming... very few are farmers by choice. Many have second jobs, just to pay the bills. There are niche and upscale farms that grow specific things like apples and wine grapes that can do quite well, but these are well established family-run businesses that would cost millions of dollars to buy, when they come up for sale at all.

soygem 3y ago

Gigachad meme personified. "Archives hyper-popular Linux utility - picks up farming - leaves".

xanderlewis 3y ago
A bit like Perelman who rejected a Fields medal and then told a journalist who dared to ring him up after he had moved to the Russian countryside ‘You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms’.

echelon_musk 3y ago

"This isn't so bad, huh? Making bucks, getting exercise, working outside."

Apocryphon 3y ago

More and more such cases! https://twitter.com/timokonkwo_/status/1785340149582143947 https://twitter.com/timokonkwo_/status/1785340149582143947