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Anil Dash@anildash.com |
Which kind of former coder are you: baking bread, too many synthesizers, or woodworking?
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Matt Ficke
@mattficke.bsky.social
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[quietly puts my handplanes and chisels away] I don’t know what you’re talking about
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Wendell B
@wndlb.bsky.social
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If 66 was the end, what, guitar solos?
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John Minnihan
@jbminn.bsky.social
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still coding but transitioning to full time traveler
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NutMeg
@casuallychaotic.bsky.social
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How does collecting too much wooden bread fall into that choice?
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Joel Pelletier 🍩
@joelpelletier.bsky.social
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All three!
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Brian Fitzpatrick
@therealfitz.com
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Just @ me FFS. Oh, and watchmaking
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blakeyrat 2000
@blakeyrat.bsky.social
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Distilling
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threddy
@threddyrex.com
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enamel pins
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Mark Norman Francis
@cackhanded.net
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Dungeon Master
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allen
@thankfuck.studio
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you bastard (...potter)
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Mark O’Neill
@marxculture.bsky.social
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Synths :)
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Fryda Wolff
@frydawolff.bsky.social
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<theyrethesamepicture.gif>
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Cargo Occultist
@whisk.bsky.social
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Unit, 1 (One), Bang.
@bangunit.bsky.social
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"Too many synthesizers" doesn't exist if you went Modular, Anil.
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phrebh
@phrebh.bsky.social
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Still coding, but a little of the first and a lot of the last while consciously avoiding the second.
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Kevin 💙💛
@kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social
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we need a remake of Too Many Cooks but with synthesizers
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Sumguy
@sumguy.bsky.social
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Leather work
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Ingrid Third
@ingridthird.bsky.social
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Potter
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Erik ❤️
@benoist.dev
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Guilty of breads and synths, but as a former Rever employee it was a professional inevitability.
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DTaylor 🌄🤓🌿🗳️
@scrabbyone.bsky.social
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Bread in winter, garden in summer
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Aviendha69 - ⊃∪∩⪽
@aviendha69.bsky.social
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writer.
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मानस Mānas مانس
@manas999-9.bsky.social
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buddhist monastic
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Ben Birdsall
@elephony.bsky.social
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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)
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vibeulator
@vibeulator.bsky.social
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The synthesizers one.
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TurtleBee
@turtlebee.bsky.social
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Is fountain pens and origami woodworking?
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Erin Kissane
@kissane.bsky.social
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BLOCKED AND REPORTED
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Yoz Grahame
@yoz.bsky.social
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There was nearly a “too many synthesisers” moment but I took a hard left into roguelites and hiding under the duvet
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Tiffanie
@relentlesstiff.bsky.social
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Don’t leave out knitting! Baking bread is definitely one of them for me.
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Matt Moehr
@mattmoehr.bsky.social
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I work for a baker
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dsic
@dsic.bsky.social
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Bonsai.
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word
@words.bsky.social
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if you do it write you wire a breadboard to be a synthesizer and build a wooden case for while uh eating the bread you must made
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲
@josh412.com
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If I could afford to be a former coder, I would be too many synthesizers
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Loredena Frisealach
@loredena.bsky.social
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Crotchet, spinning and weaving, and fused glass
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Pocket Bear Press
@pocketbearpress.bsky.social
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Don't forget: Still clinging to your 20+ year old webcomic you started in college.
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Rob Cruickshank
@robcruickshank.bsky.social
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Former broadcast systems guy, not a coder, but all of the above. And then some.
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crw
@crw.bsky.social
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yes
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E-W
@edashw.bsky.social
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ApocalypseElf
@apocalypseelf.bsky.social
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Synthesisers
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bob barker 🍉
@insortediaboli.bsky.social
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some of them garden, sir
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Bender Rodríguez
@plungerman.bsky.social
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gardening and dogs.
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James Felix Black
@tft.io
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Oh to be a former coder
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Nora. In the big blue sky. Or whatever.🏳️⚧️
@baroquebobcat.bsky.social
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A too many sports one, obviously
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trannus👑🔪aran (truest switch)
@iswearima.top
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does it count if coding was the last stage after all 3 of those?
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@sanehamster.bsky.social
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TTRPG and aspiring woodworking. Although to be fair immediately after coding I was a sysadmin and infrastructure manager
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@zendarva.bsky.social
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I'm... in the process of transitioning to woodworking i think. Just a few more tools. Then, it's time to start automating them.......
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Alex Hanna
@alexhanna.bsky.social
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woodworking, thx
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Jerome
@fjerome.bsky.social
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I haven’t been able to retire yet but I’m a cook
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Jerry - e.g. Me
@jrbauer.bsky.social
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Not enough synthesizers. Too many harps. Woodworking (to make harps).
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RobotLemur
@robotlemur.bsky.social
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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
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Colin McMillen
@mcmillen.dev
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in order, something like: guitar --> gardening --> playing Go --> learning Japanese
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Daniel
@danielkitta.bsky.social
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Hardware development. 😁
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Bad DnD Advice
@nat1advice.bsky.social
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Of the three archetypes presented, closest to woodworking.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
@ericallyn.bsky.social
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"Woodworking" would be overstating my current situation. It's more at the "aspiring board pounder" stage.
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ob1quixote
@ob1quixote.bsky.social
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I would say I have just enough synthesizers, thank you very much.
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Patrick Ziselberger
@ziselberger.com
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Baking bread. I was a woodworker before I was a coder
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Sammie ⛈️💖 funemployed era
@sammie.gay
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technically baking bread but it's just kinda general cooking interest
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v buckenham
@v21.bsky.social
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well I'm reading this from the pottery studio, so...
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Amy Hoy
@amyhoy.bsky.social
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cameras, anil. come on.
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Erin
@codeknitter.bsky.social
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Took the search for a manual keyboard a little too far.
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Whitney Gegg-Harrison (she/they)
@writerethink.bsky.social
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Baking bread (literally have a loaf rising right now) and knitting. (I feel like knitting’s gotta be in the former-coder mix!)
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Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
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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.
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Ross Schulman
@rbs.io
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Por que no los tres?
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🐝 🅱️ ⭕️🅿️🔥
@beallyoucanbop.hellthread.cc
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wtf is "too many"
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Arlene Andrews
@arleneandrews.bsky.social
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Wool spinning.
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Ni en pedo
@300ps.bsky.social
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Fresh out of the oven. Only a few bugs. So nice not to have QA on my ass.
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John Poulos
@jpoulos.bsky.social
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Wtf. (Synths)
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Will Rosecrans
@wrosecrans.bsky.social
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Does making a film count as woodworking?
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Al Petterson
@eyelessgame.bsky.social
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still coding but every day spending another minute to make the little script that tells me how long before retirement more full-featured
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Signy Kuiper
@signykuiper.bsky.social
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A little #1, a little #3, with more than a dash of wool spinning and gardening. Was a fiction writer long before code.
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曹昌倫
@arlentsao.bsky.social
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Visual Basic professional hahaha ......
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Jess Rose
@jesslynnrose.bsky.social
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Rare personal library management variant 😌
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vortex egg, MLIS
@vortexegg.regretfully.online
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Librarian and aspiring used book store owner
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Living Erased
@livingerased.bsky.social
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Abstract expressionist
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darko barsoomian
@darkoverlordofdata.bsky.social
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I was a guitar player first. Now that I've retired from coding, I'm writing my own virtual guitar amp and pedals.
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b33ts
@b33ts.bsky.social
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too many synthesizers 😅
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Joe Regan
@jregan.bsky.social
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None of the above which probably says a lot about my coding abilities (despite getting paid to do it for nearly 30 years.) Happier former coder though? 🤷♂️
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Craig Tozzi
@craigtozzi.bsky.social
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I skipped the whole coding part and went straight to the other three.
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Slushyfund
@slushyfund.bsky.social
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I did just buy a cz-5000, so you tell me.
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fire at static valley
@atalantafugiens.fursona.club
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hopefully the last two!
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@reddog2.bsky.social
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Bread AND wood
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Allie 🤤
@lilllieallie.bsky.social
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I prefer not to speak 🙊
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George White
@its.stonehippo.com
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why not all three? Gotta feed a signal from the rising dough into the custom wooden enclosure for a couple of these eurorack modules
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Nop (he/him) 🍉 PUSSY IN BIO
@voxexsinister.bsky.social
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Not baking bread specifically, but very much on that part of the spectrum. Would also be into machining if I had the money & space to do so.
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A 🐝🥤
@velvetwaterfront.bsky.social
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The secret fourth kind (way too into adult recreational sports)
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Nathan L Smith
@nlsmith.com
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Woodworking is technically a subset of gardening.
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TaoOfTweet (and I'm sticking to it)
@starfisher.bsky.social
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Sourdough
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Laura La
@laurala.bsky.social
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Failed at gardening so went back to college to get a humanities degree for fun.
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Christy Collins
@christycollins.bsky.social
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native plants
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Diego C.Frades
@diek.havent.org
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Management 😭
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@eltervoog.bsky.social
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Woodworker, but I did do the sourdough thing (pre-COVID). Didn't do the synthesiser thing, but sure did spend a lot of time farting around with DIY audio.
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Mr Dr Bae
@dallas-taylor.bsky.social
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I bake and have a woodworking shop (dtfabs.com) but I never learned to code
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Mark Nash
@grumpykiwi.bsky.social
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If I could afford it I would collect snare drums 🥁
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@ronin420.bsky.social
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Ancient BASIC and original C+ guy, now ancient house, nightdrive, breakbeat dabbler. Oh god it's in us gen x-ers too... nooooo
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RadioFreeZerg
@radiofreezerg.bsky.social
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I have enough synthesizers, we have moved on to guitars
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CC Quilts
@ccquilts.bsky.social
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Quilter
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ŠequencedLife
@sequencedlife.bsky.social
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Too many synths
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Jim Ray
@jimray.bsky.social
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You woke up this morning and CHOSE this violence, Anil.
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Will
@roclobster.bsky.social
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Oh my god. I'm still coding, but I'm also baking bread, woodworking, and am sort of interested in synthesizers...
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chloe 🌹
@fullblownwoman.bsky.social
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you don’t know me
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Mark Hennessy-Barrett
@markhb.bsky.social
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<thumps telescope down> Other.
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Mike Smale
@earwigplanet.bsky.social
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There’s no such thing as too many synths.
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Jason Skiles
@jasonskiles.bsky.social
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Not quite former coder just yet, but ... Type 3.
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alex moar
@moar2ax.bsky.social
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...woodworking
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JJ Robinson II
@jjr2scifi.bsky.social
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college biology teacher.
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Auferre 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@auferre.bsky.social
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Bread. I'm still a musician, synthesizers are a bit too much like work. (At my level of manual dexterity, I don't trust myself to complete any woodworking project without baptizing it in blood.)
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Alisha Grauso
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Can we get one for former media people? Lots of plants, too many guitars, crocheting/really into making mead?
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linkedin pork
@sex-truck.forsale
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If only it was former.. but yeah synths and woodworking
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MicRoh
@microh.bsky.social
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When you code an eight track sequencer it stands to reason that you need a synthesizer per track.
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